file read dates

hamilton at uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU hamilton at uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU
Wed Feb 5 07:10:00 AEST 1986


re: file read times

atime is used by finger (and presumably w) to calculate tty idle time.
i routinely use atime, via ls -lu, for several things, the most useful
of which is to find out if/when someone has read his mail.

	wayne hamilton
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