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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com
> [mailto:sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com] On Behalf Of Roger Levy
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 2:24 PM
> To: sftalk_at_forth.com
> Subject: [sftalk] Re: RE : Search for file / Check file properties
>
> Just learned XCOPY doesn't do what I want - the resolution of
> "newness" it
> reckognizes is 1 day or more.
> Leon: What's rsync?
>
> In the meantime guess I'll try looking at DIR...
>
> Roger
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Roger Levy
> <roger.levy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Everyone, thanks for the suggestions.
> >
> > I was hoping to be able to do it in a semi-portable way. Shold've
> > mentioned that.
> >
> > I think that the simplest might be using a shell command,
> since the process
> > should translate to equivalent Mac and Linux commands ...
> (I hope???)
> >
> > Roger
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Charles Melice
> <3d_at_forthcad.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Roger,
> >>
> >> You know probably that the XCOPY.EXE command line do that
> for free...
> >>
> >> Charles
> >>
> >> -----Message d'origine-----
> >> De : sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com
> [mailto:sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com] De la part
> >> de
> >> Roger Levy
> >> Envoyé : jeudi 7 août 2008 16:55
> >> À : sftalk_at_forth.com
> >> Objet : [sftalk] Search for file / Check file properties
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi All,
> >> I wanted to implement an automatic resource-update
> facility, but I'm not
> >> sure how to do it in SwiftForth, or where to find out.
> >>
> >> I would like to be able to search for a file in a source
> directory and see
> >> if we need to copy it to a target directory.
> >>
> >> If the source file is found,
> >>
> >> 1. If it doesn't exist in the target directory, copy it and exit.
> >>
> >> 2. If it exists in the target directory and the source
> file is newer than
> >> the target file, copy it and exit.
> >>
> >> 3. Else do nothing and exit.
> >>
> >>
> >> Mostly I was just wondering what are the commands to use
> to 1.) find a
> >> file
> >> in a directory and 2.) check its Last Modified attribute.
> >>
> >> Roger
> >>
> >>
> >>
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