PE> I checked the posix standard, stat() is in there, operates on a
 PE> filename, include  and  to get it. The
 PE> dates are all of type time_t, so you can use strftime() on
 PE> them.

  Borland says the opposite about their stat struct, but strftime()
won't work in Unix anyway. I've had to write my own. What I am trying
to do is write a library of simple file and directory functions that
will work DOS/Windows/UNIX. 

  If you just call stat() and use the struct as time_t you will get 
daylight savings time for New York (that's what *I* got, anyway). To
make stat() work you have to explicity put 

    timezone = 0;
    daylight = 0;

  and then ctime() won't work!

  I love C. It's such a great language... and so portable, too.

 PE> The Posix standard further restricts time_t to be the number of
 PE> seconds since 1970, although they don't make that clear

  I thought Borland made it pretty clear it wasn't. But I can't use
the time_t variable anyway, in UNIX. 

 PE> (Posix was created by dickheads - who else would make fork()
 PE> part of the standard when hardly anyone can do one of them, and
 PE> most people really are just trying to do an spawn() when they
 PE> use fork() (because they follow it with an exec())).

  You used one too many brackets.

Regards,
Bob

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