Newsgroups: comp.os.linux From: ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Jackson) Subject: Re: crazy time? Message-ID: <1993Jul7.100329.21735@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Summary: RTFM Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account) Organization: Linux Unlimited References: Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1993 23:07:59 GMT Lines: 36 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article Frank Tegtmeyer says he gets different timestamps on files created at the same time with gzip. If he had read the manpage he would not have posted that question. I quote, from my manpage for gzip-1.2.3: DESCRIPTION Gzip reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the extension .gz, while keeping the same own- <<< ership modes, access and modification times. (The default <<< extension is -gz for VMS, z for MSDOS, OS/2 FAT and Atari.) If no files are specified, the standard input is compressed to the standard output. Gzip will only attempt to compress regular files. In particular, it will ignore symbolic links. Please RTFM before posting ! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.2 iQCVAgUBLDoFxcMWjroj9a3bAQF/bgP/Z/b/5icX67tJid4j56PI7aIsf+Ka1jc7 0amNcEkRDZmsYlh65MVMNYELFXeJEzDl4z4WB0zccskBwAUjqXfvF4VE6Kk24Jn0 t5//ZLP9zCjSPtp0zVdHOiHwHrU/8MMn7VpOB8ryXWeo08ongVK1Wj0qchIjzI4K 0lEbyEGUt8Q= =7ETR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Ian Jackson (non urgent email only - see below) home: 35 Molewood Close, Cambridge, CB4 3SR, England; phone: +44 223 327029 work & urgent email: Olivetti Research Ltd; +44 223 343398 PGP2 public key on request; fingerprint = 5906F687 BD03ACAD 0D8E602E FCF37657