First time using stat()command. I get unexpected results.
Here is the code:
while($loopnum <10)
{
   $loc=(telldir(backups));
   $newloc=seekdir(backups,($loc++));
   $filename=readdir(backups);
   ($size,$mtime)=stat($filename);
   $convtime=localtime($mtime);
   print($filename, " is " ,$size, " bytes long, last   modified on ",
+$mtime," ",$convtime,"\n");
   $loopnum++;
}

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returns:

. is 2308 bytes long, last modified on 218105879 Mon Nov 29 00:57:59 1976
.. is 2308 bytes long, last modified on 128 Wed Dec 31 16:02:08 1969
scripts.tgz is 2308 bytes long, last modified on 218105914 Mon Nov 29 00:58:34 1976
users.tgz is 2308 bytes long, last modified on 218105915 Mon Nov 29 00:58:35 1976
20050303.log is 2308 bytes long, last modified on 219200296 Sat Dec 11 16:58:16 1976
20050304.log is 2308 bytes long, last modified on 219200298 Sat Dec 11 16:58:18 1976
20050304.tgz is 2308 bytes long, last modified on 219200299 Sat Dec 11 16:58:19 1976
20050305.tgz is 2308 bytes long, last modified on 219200302 Sat Dec 11 16:58:22 1976
20050306.log is 2308 bytes long, last modified on 219200305 Sat Dec 11 16:58:25 1976
20050307.log is 2308 bytes long, last modified on 219200307 Sat Dec 11 16:58:27 1976

The dates and file sizes are wrong.
20050302.tgz is the backup for 2005-Mar-02; all the other files are named using the same convention.

The size of 20050304.tgz is approximately 973795939; all the other .tgz files are about the same size.

The .log files are always 70 bytes.

In reply to bad results from stat() by snorky

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