Subject: Re: Changing distfiles
To: James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org>
From: Gavan Fantom <gavan@coolfactor.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/21/2003 11:23:11
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, James K. Lowden wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Gavan Fantom <gavan@coolfactor.org> wrote:
> > You can get the modification time out of an ftp server too.
>
> Some FTP servers.  MDTM never made it into the standard, afaik.

And, with a bit of hacking, parsing the output from 'ls' in most other
cases.

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