Aztec C time() and stat()

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1 total messages Started by walton Fri, 16 Jan 1987 19:07

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Author: walton
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1987 19:07

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While trying some UN*X code out on Aztec C 3.20a (including
compress and the most recent mod.sources make), I discovered two facts
to share:

(1) The Aztec time() call returns the long integer number of
    seconds elapsed since 1 January 1978 00:00, and NOT the funny
    bit-by-bit format in the documentation, which is peculiar to
    MS/DOS (MicroSoft's Damaged Operating System).

(2) The stat() call exists, though it is undocumented.  Calling
    sequence is:
	#include <stat.h>
	stat(file, statbuf);
	char *file;			/* name of file */
	struct stat *statbuf;		/* pointer to status buffer */
    stat() returns the mode bits, modification time, and size of the
    file, as shown by the definition in stat.h.

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