I wanted to do this too, but there are some problems. One is the information and/or format of the listing can vary among different ftp servers, making a universal solution difficult. Another is when you upload or download a file via ftp, the file is assigned the current date/time, not the original date/time. The ability to modify the date/time of a file in RR could overcome this, but only for downloads.
I have been using a system of using a "control" file that contains the date/time for each file on the ftp server, and pkzipc (command line version) to preserve the date/time of the files (in addition to compressing them). But each computer must have the pkzip utilities. Again, if RR had the ability to modify the date/time of a file (or someone wrote an external to do it - hint hint), I could build a utility to handle all of this without having to rely on pkzip. Jay Madren -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alex Tweedly Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 18:11 To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: ftp dates At 23:45 25/07/2004 +0200, Ton Cardona wrote: >I would like to compare the modification date of a binary file on an ftp >server with that of a corresponding binary file in a folder on the hard disk. > >The purpose is to download files of the ftp server ony when their >modification date date is older than those of the files in the hard disk > >I guess there must be a way of doing it, but I am unable to find out how. There's a "How To" on How to list the files in an FTP directory - summary is that an FTP URL which finishes in a "/" will give back a directory listing, including the name, size, permissions, owner, and last modification date The example given is : put URL "ftp://ftp.example.net/mydir/"; into field "List" Take comparing modification times between systems for different clock settings - you may want to check current time on each machine and use that to adjust your decisions. -- Alex. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
