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Re: O.T. FTP upload

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On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:33:50 -0700, Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>
>I use ScriptFTP, mind it is a Windows only product:
>
>http://www.scriptftp.com

That looks promising. The one feature I would like is caching the
dates of files on the server so it would not have to download them on
the SYNC command. That is quite time consuming.  I suppose I could
cook up something specific to my needs to do that and generate a
script of specific uploads and only use sync once a day to pick up
stragglers.

The poor thing has to upload a dummy file then download it again to
find out what the server thinks the time is. FTP works off local time
with unknown timezone.  I guess FTP was invented when no one imagined
inter-time zone file transfers.  Such a protocol designed today would
surely have UTC timestamps on everything and use NTP to keep the
clocks accurate.

I would have thought FTP would have evolved to use UTC on all servers.

I commend the authors. They have both examples and reference
documentation. I was able to figure out how to use it in under a
minute.


-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
Capitalism has spurred the competition that makes CPUs faster and 
faster each year, but the focus on money makes software manufacturers 
do some peculiar things like deliberately leaving bugs and deficiencies
in the software so they can soak the customers for upgrades later.
Whether software is easy to use, or never loses data, when the company
has a near monopoly, is almost irrelevant to profits, and therefore 
ignored. The manufacturer focuses on cheap gimicks like dancing paper 
clips to dazzle naive first-time buyers. The needs of existing 
experienced users are almost irrelevant. I see software rental as the 
best remedy.

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O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-01 07:07 -0700
  Re: O.T. FTP upload Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-11-01 09:33 -0700
    Re: O.T. FTP upload Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-11-01 18:49 +0000
      Re: O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-01 23:40 -0700
    Re: O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-01 23:33 -0700
  Re: O.T. FTP upload Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-01 22:11 -0400
  Re: O.T. FTP upload Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-11-02 21:20 +0000
    Re: O.T. FTP upload Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-02 17:31 -0700
      Re: O.T. FTP upload Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-11-04 21:13 +0000
        Re: O.T. FTP upload Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-04 14:29 -0700
          Re: O.T. FTP upload Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-11-04 15:12 -0700
          Re: O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-04 15:15 -0700
            Re: O.T. FTP upload Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-04 21:43 -0400
          Re: O.T. FTP upload Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-11-05 19:44 +0000
            Re: O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-06 06:58 -0800
              Re: O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-08 06:58 -0800
                Re: O.T. FTP upload Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-08 16:03 +0000
                Re: O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-12 15:36 -0800
                Re: O.T. FTP upload Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-13 00:45 +0000
                Re: O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-14 05:51 -0800
  Re: O.T. FTP upload Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2011-11-02 16:47 -0600
  Re: O.T. FTP upload Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2011-11-02 16:33 -0700
    Re: O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-03 03:14 -0700
      Re: O.T. FTP upload Gunter Herrmann <notformail0106@earthlink.net> - 2011-11-03 10:24 -0400
  Re: NOT O.T. FTP upload Gunter Herrmann <notformail0106@earthlink.net> - 2011-11-03 10:30 -0400
    Re: NOT O.T. FTP upload Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-03 08:09 -0700
      Re: NOT O.T. FTP upload Gunter Herrmann <notformail0106@earthlink.net> - 2011-11-03 13:56 -0400
      Re: NOT O.T. FTP upload Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-03 22:26 -0400

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