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RE: B19.1: tar -u option under NT 4.0 SP3 does not update properly
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com, Jacques Lavictoire <lavictoi at CCRS dot NRCan dot gc dot ca>, "'earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com'" <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: RE: B19.1: tar -u option under NT 4.0 SP3 does not update properly
- From: "Lavictoire, Jacques" <Jacques dot Lavictoire at geocan dot nrcan dot gc dot ca>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 09:23:41 -0400
Thanks for the information on the FAT problem but these files are on an
NTFS filesystem.
Thanks
Jack
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> From: Earnie Boyd[SMTP:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
> Reply To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
> Sent: Friday, July 10, 1998 9:15 AM
> To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com; Jacques Lavictoire
> Subject: Re: B19.1: tar -u option under NT 4.0 SP3 does not
> update properly
>
>
> On a FAT filesystem there is only one timestamp and that is the date
> of last access. Therefore, when tar accesses the file it updates the
> timestamp to the file and then will think that it has been modified.
>
>
>
> ---Jacques Lavictoire <lavictoi@CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm new to gnu-win32 so it might just be me but repeating a tar
> job
> > with -u should update only if the files are newer then the previous
> > tarred files correct . But it keeps adding the files but they are
> all
> > the same set of files exactly. An example is as follows
> >
> > bash-2.01$ tar -v -u /temp/ati/* -f /temp/test1.tar
> > tar: Removing leading `/' from absolute path names in the archive
> > temp/ati/DE5110C1.EXE
> > temp/ati/MAKEDISK.BAT
> > temp/ati/MAKEDISK.PIF
> > bash-2.01$ tar -v -u /temp/ati/* -f /temp/test1.tar
> > tar: Removing leading `/' from absolute path names in the archive
> > temp/ati/DE5110C1.EXE
> > temp/ati/MAKEDISK.BAT
> > temp/ati/MAKEDISK.PIF
> > bash-2.01$ tar -v -u /temp/ati/* -f /temp/test1.tar
> > tar: Removing leading `/' from absolute path names in the archive
> > temp/ati/DE5110C1.EXE
> > temp/ati/MAKEDISK.BAT
> > temp/ati/MAKEDISK.PIF
> >
> > After this you would expect, if I'm reading the help on tar
> properly,
> > that I should only have one copy of the files since they haven't
> changed
> > at all. Is this a problem ?
> >
> > Thank You
> >
> > Jack
> >
> >
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> >
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