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Hello Winston - 

>> So which one of these is most commonly used in, for example,
>> directory listings? 

WS> Well, the "default" is to list the "last modified" time,
WS> since that is an important security feature to see how
WS> recently the file contents had been "twiddled", and it is
WS> needed for compiles and MAKE and code deltas and other
WS> automatic functions that use a "last touched" time. It that
WS> it concurrs with DOS. 

I have never before heard a *nix programmer say his code must
agree with DOS defaults. I would hazard the guess that the
'MAKE' app would read the information using it's own internal
code and not rely on some utilities directory listings displays? 

WS> However, as this is UNIX, you can set the flags to show or
WS> exclude any fields that you like, to create alias commands
WS> such as 'oldest' or 'looked-at' or anything that you like. 

Last time I wrote any C code to use/display directory listings
it seemed to me that there are no 'canned' routines for this
and I was at liberty to do whatever I wanted to do with the raw
data supplied by library routines that read the directory in
DOS. There really isn't much there as I recall and I had to
convert the data to be able to display human readable
information on my own. :-\ 

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