On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:

> On 12 Aug 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> 
> > Graham Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I was writing a script yesterday, and I wanted to have a test to compare
> > > the modification time of two files. test(1) doesn't have the ability to
> > > do this. In the end I worked around this by using make(1), but it set me
> > > thinking - wouldn't it be a good idea to add some new tests to test(1),
> > > to compare files based on criteria like size or modification date?
> > 
> > NetBSD's test(1) utility has this (-nt and -ot). We should probably
> > merge in their changes.
> 
> Hmm... this is in pdksh too...

In other words, I think we've come upon more reasons to switch.

> 
> > 
> > DES
> > -- 
> > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 
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