Subj : Time and Date
To   : Gord Hannah
From : Eddy Thilleman
Date : Tue Nov 25 2003 12:35 pm

Hello Gord,

Sunday 23 November 2003 10:21, Gord Hannah wrote to All:

GH> I am looking for a utility that will set the time and date of an
GH> archive that has been downloaded by either Netscape, Mozilla, or NFTP,
GH> these programs touch the files and set them to the day and time you
GH> download the instead of the date of the newest or latest file in the
GH> archive.

When a file is downloaded, a new file has to be created on your system. The 
default time+date stamp for a new file is the current system time+date. Also 
when a file is changed, its time+date stamp is automatically updated to the 
current time+date by the operating system. Only after the file is closed, then 
its time+date stamp can be changed. The server where you're downloading from 
should also pass the file's time+date stamp to your system, so this time+date 
stamp can be applied automatically to the downloaded file.

GH> I have one called PKZDATE a DOS util that craps out with
GH> long file names.  Ideally I would like this to recognize all the
GH> popular archivers zip, arj, lzh (lha), rar for example, any such
GH> animal out there?

Usually, an option in archiver's commandline sets the archive file's time+date 
stamp to that of the newest file inside the archive.

See wget's manual and search for 'Time-Stamping' for more information.

GH> If not would some one be able and willing to write one?  I will test
GH> it.  I would also like a utility, that will take any archive and
GH> convert it to another, for example zip to lha, rar to zip.

I've written a set of REXX files to convert an archive from one format to 
another.


  Greetings   -=Eddy=-

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