DOS emulation under VP/IX problem!
Mark Allsop 8597
mallsop at mqccsunb.mqcc.mq.OZ
Fri Feb 23 22:36:09 AEST 1990
I was hoping someone with a bit more knowledge or experience could
answer this (problem||bug) we've found......
We have a Sun386 running DOS emulation using VP/IX. Now this works
very very well. Until you try to use the modification time of a file time,
as for some reason this is not updated when a file is modified as I believe
it should under DOS. As an example, we compiled a touch command under a
real DOS machine and the Sun.
On the DOS machine, it touched the file date correctly.
On the Sun, it did not. That is, the date under VP/IX on the Sun is
always the creation date. Although this is not always a problem, it makes
using the make utility a REAL pain.
So, that's the problem. Is this a bug of VP/IX DOS? or is there an
option we can select? Or should we just panic?
Any replies or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
-Mark.
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