On Wed, 2002-03-20 13:23:03 -0500, Serge Gagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have just install for the first time debian on a SGI Indy R4600 100Mhz > 160Mo. The installation went fine. I downloaded libIDL-0.6.8.tar.gz in > /usr/src then started tar zxvf to find out that the file creation date > tar produced was sometime in 1997! The date command report the current > date correctly! I'm unable to ./configure libIDL cause my system > obviously in not sane timewise ;-(
When tar creates a file, it tries to restore the original file's
modification time, so some files in your archive might be some
5 years old? ...or the creator's computer clock was bad.
MfG, JBG
--
Jan-Benedict Glaw . [EMAIL PROTECTED] . +49-172-7608481
-- New APT-Proxy written in shell script --
http://lug-owl.de/~jbglaw/software/ap2/
pgpJi1LxDAgL2.pgp
Description: PGP signature
