RE: B19.1: tar -u option under NT 4.0 SP3 does not update properly

["Lavictoire, Jacques" <Jacques dot Lavictoire at geocan dot nrcan dot gc dot ca>]

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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