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Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites?

From Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites?
Date 2011-05-23 07:08 +0100
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On 22 May 2011, Jeremy Nicoll - news posts  wrote:
> Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> wrote:

>> But what do you do when the two get out of sync?

> Why would they?

That's a simple question to answer Jeremy: Human operator error. Mine 
:-)

But because neither FTPc nor SiteMatch operate on a closed-loop 
feedback system, relying instead on open-loop non-feedback, any error 
like this will not be corrected.

> And even if they do, why can't you just re-upload the files that have
> changed on the local copy more recently than the last upload date?

Perhaps because missing files not on the website are not the only 
mis-sync that can happen. Extra files on the website can also be a 
problem.

It would be much better if a closed-loop system could be devised for 
upload. I know, people say it is impossible because the web has been 
so badly designed, using different OS's for servers all over the place 
with differing ways of not feeding date information or size 
information back.  The sooner this situation is rectified, the better. 
Perhaps the WWW consortium or some other over-seeing body (BSI, ASI?) 
should set better standards on server OS design? [Some hope... Maybe 
next century... ]



-- 

Cheers
Roger
If you start nowhere, you'll finish up in the same place

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a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2011-05-20 17:23 +0100
  Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2011-05-20 21:17 +0100
    Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2011-05-20 21:45 +0100
      Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2011-05-20 22:49 +0100
      Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2011-05-22 07:28 +0100
        Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2011-05-22 13:28 +0100
          Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2011-05-22 16:19 +0100
      Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some webs jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk (Jonathan Graham Harston) - 2011-05-22 17:30 +0100
        Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some webs Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2011-05-24 14:36 +0100
  Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2011-05-21 10:29 +0100
    Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Andrew Hodgkinson <ahodgkin@rowing.org.uk> - 2011-05-21 10:39 +0100
    Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2011-05-21 13:13 +0100
      Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-05-22 03:37 +0200
        Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2011-05-22 07:17 +0100
          Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2011-05-22 09:45 +0200
            Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2011-05-22 10:31 +0100
              Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2011-05-22 12:57 +0200
                Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-05-24 01:11 +0200
                Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2011-05-24 17:30 +0100
              Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-05-24 01:03 +0200
            Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2011-05-22 16:41 +0100
          Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-05-24 00:57 +0200
            Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2011-05-24 14:14 +0100
      Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2011-05-22 18:54 +0100
        Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2011-05-23 07:08 +0100
          Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? jgharston <jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk> - 2011-05-23 08:01 -0700
          Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-05-24 01:44 +0200
            Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some webs jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk (Jonathan Graham Harston) - 2011-05-29 23:49 +0100
              Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some webs Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-05-30 12:11 +0200
                Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some webs Frank de Bruijn <zuiderduin@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-31 07:45 +0200
              Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some webs Frank de Bruijn <zuiderduin@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-31 07:38 +0200
  Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-05-29 20:50 +1200
  Re: a program to read/compare the size of files on some websites? Ron Briscoe <ron.briscoe@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2011-05-29 16:26 +0100

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