[tex-live] ctan->tl updates caught up

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/8/3 Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:
>
>
> Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>> There is a good reason. People usually routinely make backup. To copy
>> the whole disk every day (or in some companies several times a day)
>> would be very expensive, thus the backup is incremental and it is
>> necessary to know what was changed from the last backup time.
>
> Indeed.  That last part is very clear.  And when the file is created
> by TAR, its "last-modified" date will be set to the time of
> its creation, will it not, since it has not in fact been modified
> in its new home.  If this takes place automatically, why is it
> necessary to then explicitly set the "last-modified" date ?  This
> is the part that I am clearly failing to understand.
>
I cannot answer. I switched from DOS+Windows 3.0 to OS/2 in 1994, thus
I do not know the Windows specific details. Maybe I have old notes how
it worked on DOS but most probably, if I still keep them, they may be
on an old 5 1/4" diskette for which I do not have a drive any longer.

> ** Phil.



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