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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!recepsen.aa.msen.com!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dos2unixtime fatal bug in 2.0.5-R Date: 18 Sep 1995 22:36:10 +0200 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <43kl7q$2r7@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <APC&63'0'18d7dd12'9b9@glas.apc.org> <42p18b$gbp@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <mpp.811207680@mpp.minn.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.minn.net> wrote: >Since I'm the last one to touch the "dos2unixtime()" routine: > >The "month value out of range" warning is telling you that that >date field for the file in question had value that was not between >1 and 12 (inclusive) (DOS stores dates as separate month/day/year fields). I've also been looking at that code, and it looks ok. His problem is most probably the general brokeness of msdogfs for r/w mounts rather than this benign warning. I haven't heard back anything again from him. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)