Unix Question

[mouse at mcgill-vision.UUCP]

In article <249 at sjuvax.UUCP>, cc743805 at sjuvax.UUCP (conway) writes:
>      How can one change the date/time stamp of a file?

>      I want to be able to put any date/time on a file that I
>      have in my directory.  Is this possible?

Most versions of UNIX have a syscall to do just this; on Berkeley UNIX
it is called utime or utimes.  I assume it would be called something
similar on AT&T systems.

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