Re: [MiNT] Fxattr giving wrong date values (was Re: zDesk desktop sources available)

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 22:39:21 , Vincent Rivière wrote:
>
>>
>> If the MS Windows explorer would work like that, it would solve my "make
>> example". If I'm not wrong, the "cp" tool works as you have just describe
>> d,
>> and there is no problem.
>
> unix cp is really dumb, you have to tell it to preserve the file attr.
> It should be the other way around.
>

bind an alias to cp to automatically use the option
alias cp='cp -p'

I use it all the time with ls + colors

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Creation date re:ext2 seems to be a moot point because there is no way
around it, just as long as other fs are preserving it, and that this
is varified with watever tools we are using today, not much else can
be done

Paul