Win32API::File::Time

This package exposes the Windows file creation time for access and
modification. It also allows the access, update, and creation times
to be modified even if the file is open, or read-only. In fact, the
porting of functionality from a system where the Perl utime build-in
would change the date of an open file (VMS) to one where it wouldn't
(MSWin32) was the motivation for the module.

This module exports nothing by default, but is capable of exporting
the following subroutines:
    GetFileTime and SetFileTime (to get and set all file times)
    utime (to override the built-in).
Unlike the Microsoft Kernel32 subroutines of the same name, these take
a file name (not a handle), and work in terms of Perl times, not
Microsoft file times. Specifically:

  ($atime, $mtime, $ctime) = GetFileTime ($filename);
  SetFileTime ($filename, $atime, $mtime, $ctime) or die $^E;

This module has the following prerequisites:
  Time::Local
  Win32::API
  Win32API::File



INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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CPAN kit:

expand the kit using GZip and TAR (or equivalent). Then issue the
standard commands:

 perl Makefile.PL
 nmake
 nmake test
 nmake install

Note that the "test" step is optional, but recommended.

See ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe for a copy of
nmake if you need it.


PPM kit:

Expand the kit using unzip (or equivalent). Then

 ppm install Win32API-File-Time.ppd


If all else fails:

Get the .pm files from your kit by whatever means you can, and drop
them in /site/lib/Win32/Process (or wherever ...).


COPYRIGHT NOTICE
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Copyright 2004, 2005 by E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, Inc.
All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can use it, redistribute it
and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.