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Number   :  4793
Date     :  2003-06-10
Author   :  J. Merrill
Subject  :  Re: XXCOPY16 and Directory Cloning
Size(KB) :  1


At 01:52 PM 6/10/2003 +0000, agentxxl52 wrote
>Hi all,
>
>Just a follow-up on the scenario I brought up in March. After some 
>shake-ups around the work place, a month of vacation and an extended 
>illness, I finally got a chance to play around with XXCopy and the 
>networked DOS 5 machine. I am able to map drives on my WinNT4 box to 
>the DOS 5 box, and I can use XXCOPY to transfer files. Alas my 
>original dilemma of maintaining the source directory timestamps still 
>seems to be a problem. A standard /CLONE will create new directories 
>on the destination. If I pre-copy the directory structure from the 
>source using
>
>XXCOPY G: E:\PFSleep /T/TCC
>
>the directory timestamps are preserved. Then, no matter what 
>combination of switches I use to copy the files from G: will result 
>in the directory timestamp being updated to the current date/time. 
>Maybe I just haven't found the right combination of switches - god 
>knows there are enough of them! :)
>
>Any further assistance would be appreciated! Thanks...
>
>Dale
>[snip]

The default behavior of NT4 is to display the "last write" timestamp of both files and directories; and to update the "last write" timestamp of directories when files are copied into the directory. The "create timestamp" of the directory is not being modified; the "last write timestamp" is; and normally you see the "last write" value.

If you use 

dir e:\PFSleep\ /tc | find ""

you will see the "create date" accurately. You can configure current versions of Explorer to show the "create timestamp" rather than the "last write timestamp" by using the "View / Choose Columns..." dialog; that feature isn't available on NT4. But you could perhaps view the directory from another computer using that feature.

I'd guess that if you were to re-create the directories on another target using the /tcc option, you would get the right ("create timestamp") values.

HTH

J. Merrill / Analytical Software Corp



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