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Hi there,
being on Win98 I find it a bit annoying to always have
2 to 3 tests fail because they do not consider this
platform's quirks - so to say.
The issue is: On non-NT Windows a file's time stamp
cannot be to second precise (1 bit is missing), so
every time stamp is reduced to even seconds.
Now, if you have a test which introduces a delay of one
second to see if file time changed, this will fail if
the file time is expected to be odd.

The changes in the diff file amount to the following:
- A little proc which waits up the start of even
second, and which is called in all 3 tests involved
here (24.2, 24.8, 24-9).
- 24.2: I also moved the calls to [clock second] behind
the calls to [close] - close can be an expensive
opreation, and the new order makes it more probable,
that the two will get the same value.
- 24.8, 24.9: I changed the delay from 1100 to 2100.

With these patches all tests pass. I hope, that the
small additional delay introduced will be acceptable to
you.
Best regards
Helmut Giese

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Really should work out a constraint for when the temporary 
directory is on a FAT filesystem, but we'll keep going with 
what we've got.

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