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From: Chris Marriott
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 00:00

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In article <48uuk6$h28$1@sydney.DIALix.oz.au>
           koala@sydney.dialix.com.au "John Savage" writes:

>djr@mphd1.novell.ac.uk (Dominic Robinson) writes:
>>How do I read the creation time of a number of .txt files into another
>>file to the NEAREST SECOND.  /date only gives to the nearest minute??
>
>Get one of the Un*x-style list utilities from SimTel or Garbo. "ls" is
>analogous to the MSDOS "DIR" command, but ls -l gives time of creation
>to the nearest second. You'll probably find any of these should do ...

Note that it is impossible to get times to the nearest second, since
MS-DOS stores file times in 2-second units!

Chris
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From: Chris Marriott <chris@chrism.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Help with date and Time
Date: 1995/11/22
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