[DUG] determining file system

[Rohit Gupta]

Oh its worse than that.  Say a file is on PC-1.  Then PC-2 can see a 
different timestamp than PC-3.

I dont know why MS could not have adopted the unix way by now.  
The timestamp is always stored in a standard format... its the 
display that varies according to the timezone.

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Phil,
  There's some additional weirdness that can happen with timestamps even on
a windows filesystem.

"One of the file system features you may find yourself surprised by is
tunneling, wherein the creation timestamp and short/long names of a file are
taken from a file that existed in the directory previously. In other words,
if you delete some file "File with long name.txt" and then create a new file
with the same name, that new file will have the same short name and the same
creation time as the original file."

Here's a link to the article:

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/07/15/439261.aspx

Sorry, I have no ideas about Netware.

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From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
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Sent: Wednesday, 20 July 2005 11:08 a.m.
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Subject: [DUG] determining file system

Part of our code depends on getting the file stamp of a particular file, 
however on systems that have that particular file served by something 
like Novell Netware, that timestamp can be something other than what was 
expected.

Is there a way to determine the file/operating/network system (whatever 
is the correct one to check) of a given location?

Cheers,
Phil.
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