From: b.mcleod@opengroup.org ("Bruce D. McLeod")
Subject: cp -p bug
15 Apr 1997 16:02:42 -0700
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cp -p (preserve file attributes) gives the new file a date
in 1969:

E:\cords_nt\export\winnt\winnt\comm\nt_xkern\lib>dir ju*

04/15/97  04:44p                     9 junk.txt

E:\cords_nt\export\winnt\winnt\comm\nt_xkern\lib>cp -p junk.txt junk2.txt

E:\cords_nt\export\winnt\winnt\comm\nt_xkern\lib>dir ju*

04/15/97  04:44p                     9 junk.txt
12/31/69  08:00p                     9 junk2.txt

Bruce

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