On Wed, 2002-03-20 13:23:03 -0500, Serge Gagne <sgagne@flashsolutions.qc.ca> wrote in message <[🔎] 3C98D387.44B921B@flashsolutions.qc.ca>: > 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 . jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 -- New APT-Proxy written in shell script -- http://lug-owl.de/~jbglaw/software/ap2/
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