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From: michaelk@copper.TEK.COM (Michael D. Kersenbrock)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Z80DOS, PZDOS and datestamp formats
Message-ID: <1505@copper.TEK.COM>
Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 15:48:26 EST
Article-I.D.: copper.1505
Posted: Tue Dec  1 15:48:26 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 03:19:17 EST
References: <1433@sigma.UUCP> <8711301746.AA22038@newton.arpa>
Reply-To: michaelk@copper.UUCP (Michael D. Kersenbrock
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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Keywords: In article <8711301746.AA22038@newton.arpa> bridger%rcc@RAND-UNIX.ARPA (Bridger Mitchell) writes:

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>Automatic file time and datestamping is a feature many cp/m 2.2 users
>already have by using DateStamper.  Z80DOS implements timestamps
>in a manner similar to that used in cp/m 3 -- using 1 directory
>entry every 4 for the stamps; however, its method conflicts
>(destructively) with cp/m 3 file stamps.  PZDOS is aiming to give
>the user the choice of either DateStamper or cp/m 3-type stamps.
>
>The behind-the-scenes debate about timestamp formats is multifaceted.
>(I'm the author of DateStamper; read with salt-shaker at hand).  Some
>of the issues are:
>
>The DateStamper format is the most portable -- DateStamper will run

Actually, I'd think that the cp/m 3.0 "type" stamps that are
actually cp/m 3.0 compatible would be the most portable.  It would
allow 2.2 users to be compatible with the already existing standard
as defined by DRI in CP/M 3.0.

>It would be desirable to standardize on a single format for all of
>cp/m 2.2; that would enable all of us to use all of the
>timestamp-featured utilities that already exist (directory, filecopy,
>disk catalog, unix-make, for DateStamper) and are being developed, and
>
>--bridger mitchell

With a timestamp compatible with CP/M 3.0, ALL CP/M-80's would use a
single format!  existing CP/M 3.0 utilities (such as UNIX-like "make")
may be usable by 2.2 users (see the CPM3 section of Simtel20 archives).


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