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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: Setting FILE-WRITE-DATE
Date: 1999/10/29
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* "Marc Battyani" <Marc_Battyani@csi.com>
| Is there a way to set the FILE-WRITE-DATE of a file.
| I can call a C funcfion but I would prefer to avoid this.

  so you would prefer that somebody else did the dirty work, instead? :)

  if you want a SETF method on FILE-WRITE-DATE, you can write your own, but
  you can't also claim to have strictly conforming and portable code.  this
  may not be such a terrible loss, compared to a SET-FILE-WRITE-DATE or a
  function that takes gratuitously different arguments.

#:Erik