Re: Re: Apply mtime and atime to new file

|Yes? Is there a question that I am missing?

Yeap, the question was "will this work" or "why doesn't this work"? I am really new (suprise) at Perl, programming, and Perl Monks forums. I'm sorry for asking questions strangely.

I do mean well.

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Re: Apply mtime and atime to new file by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Dec 08, 2003 at 17:06 UTC
Yeap, the question was "will this work" or "why doesn't this work"? Given that you have the code, why bother asking "will this work" if you can just run the code and see whether it works? As for "why doesn't this work", you get the most out of the question if you specify what happened, and what you expected it to happen. Otherwise, people just have to guess what went wrong, meaning that people who could be answering your question might waste time, or just move on and answer a question of someone who took the trouble in supplying that information. Abigail	[reply]

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Re: Apply mtime and atime to new file
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Dec 08, 2003 at 17:06 UTC

Yeap, the question was "will this work" or "why doesn't this work"?

As for "why doesn't this work", you get the most out of the question if you specify what happened, and what you expected it to happen. Otherwise, people just have to guess what went wrong, meaning that people who could be answering your question might waste time, or just move on and answer a question of someone who took the trouble in supplying that information.

Abigail

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