Subj : REDATE2.ZIP
To   : Gerald Miller
From : andrew clarke
Date : Fri Oct 25 2002 06:35 pm

Thu 2002-10-24 19:34, Gerald Miller (1:342/512) wrote to andrew clarke:

 AC>> I missed the "C source code available" on the first read!  As it 
 AC>> turns out, the source code is very DOS-specific, and not portable, so 
 AC>> a lot of work is needed there, but you could then have a version that 
 AC>> worked natively under Windows/UNIX (that would support long file names 
 AC>> for eg.).

 > OS/2 would be nice, also.   :-))))

I haven't run OS/2 for a few years.  An OS/2 version (16 & 32-bit) should be no 
problem though.

 > Just curious....  I created an ARJ archive today, with the switches 
 > that set archive date to newest date in archive (1991), then I touched 
 > it with today's date.  Ran REDATE (my Y2K "bug" version) on the archive 
 > - I'm almost positive that REDATE sets the date on ARJ archives to the 
 > "time of creation" and not to that of the newest file in the archive.  
 > Can you verify this behavior?

17:45 voodoo [e:\devel\csource\redate2]dir test.txt
2000-01-01  12:00a         16,209  test.txt

17:45 voodoo [e:\devel\csource\redate2]arj a test.arj test.txt
ARJ 2.81a Copyright (c) 1990-2002 ARJ Software, Inc. Jun 12 2002

Creating archive  : TEST.ARJ
Adding    TEST.TXT                     28.9%
     1 file(s)

17:45 voodoo [e:\devel\csource\redate2]dir *.arj
2002-10-25   5:45p          4,799  TEST.ARJ

17:45 voodoo [e:\devel\csource\redate2]redate *.arj
Resetting file date on TEST.ARJ to 10/25/02  17:45:18

17:45 voodoo [e:\devel\csource\redate2]dir *.arj
2002-10-25   5:45p          4,799  TEST.ARJ

Looks like it's broken.  Maybe it only works with older ARJ archives.

17:47 voodoo [e:\devel\csource\redate2]del *.arj
Deleting E:\devel\csource\redate2\TEST.ARJ
     1 file deleted

17:47 voodoo [e:\devel\csource\redate2]arj230 a test.arj test.txt
ARJ 2.30 Copyright (c) 1990-92 Robert K Jung. Jan 19 1992

Creating archive  : TEST.ARJ
Adding    TEST.TXT        29.0%
    1 file(s)

17:47 voodoo [e:\devel\csource\redate2]dir *.arj
2002-10-25   5:47p          4,811  TEST.ARJ

17:48 voodoo [e:\devel\csource\redate2]redate *.arj
Resetting file date on TEST.ARJ to  1/01/00  00:00:00

17:48 voodoo [e:\devel\csource\redate2]dir *.arj
2000-01-01  12:00a          4,811  TEST.ARJ

Yep.  ;-)

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