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    From Gord Hannah@1:17/23.1 to All on Sunday, November 23, 2003 10:21:05
    Hello All hope you are having a good day :-)!
    About: Time and Date

    I am looking for a utility that will set the time and date of an archive that has been downloaded by either Netscape, Mozilla, or NFTP, these programs touch the files and set them to the day and time you download the instead of the date
    of the newest or latest file in the archive. I have one called PKZDATE a DOS util that craps out with long file names. Ideally I would like this to recognize all the popular archivers zip, arj, lzh (lha), rar for example, any such animal out there?

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

    Hope this helps. Keep us posted.

    We are a fine board trying to make it better.
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    Cheers! Gord
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  • From Eddy Thilleman@1:261/38.3 to Gord Hannah on Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:35:31
    Hello Gord,

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

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

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

    If not would some one be able and willing to write one? I will test
    it. I would also like a utility, that will take any archive and
    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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