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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