I can't offer an explaination about the dates, but I can shed some light
on the existence of those files. The RESOURCE.FRK and DESKTOP files were
created when you first put a DOS formatted disk into a MacOS machine (or
format a disk for dos on a mac). I think the DESKTOP file contains
information about where the disk, and its associated window (when you open
it) apear on screen, among other things. To answer your question, yes its
normal.

// Erik Huizing   huizing@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
// www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~huizing

On Sat, 19 May 2001, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> I was playing with find and it showed some strange results:
> 
>  rainier:~$  find /home/reed/stuff/floppy2 -mtime -1 -ls
>   188494      2 drwxr-xr-x    2 reed     staff          512 Jan 12 10:14
>  /home/reed/stuff/floppy2/RESOURCE.FRK
>   188496      2 -rwxr-xr-x    1 reed     staff          321 Jan 12 10:20
>  /home/reed/stuff/floppy2/RESOURCE.FRK/DESKTOP
>   146877      0 -rwxr-xr-x    1 reed     staff            0 Jan 12 10:14
>  /home/reed/stuff/floppy2/DESKTOP
> 
> I didn't notice this with other files.
> 
> I was going to ask if anyone could explain why these files and directory
> appear to find to be modified within the last day; but now I think I
> figured it out.
> 
>  rainier:~$ perl -e '$mtime =
>  (stat("/home/reed/stuff/floppy2/RESOURCE.FRK/DESKTOP"))[9]; print
>  "$mtime\n";'
>  1957544440
>  rainier:~$ date -r 1957544440
>  Mon Jan 12 10:20:40 PST 2032
> 
> This is from a DOS floppy that was used on a Mac PowerPC that I recently
> (Apr. 16) copied to my drive. (Now that I look at it, some of the other
> directories are dated "Dec 31, 1979".) If I recall correctly, I copied the
> files with "cp -Rp".
> 
> Is this normal with DOS floppies or maybe with DOS floppies built on
> PowerPC's?
> 
>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://www.reedmedia.net/
> 
>