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Article: 14229 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: File Transfer as Backup from Xenix 2.3.4 to WinOS
Date: 23 Apr 2003 09:14:16 -0400
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In article <ofnpa.182462$vs.18609662@news3.calgary.shaw.ca>,
Will Martin <squares@shaw.ca> wrote:
: ...
: We have a Xenix 2.3.4 box that I need to backup files off of onto the NT
: network. Files are regularly created, changed, or deleted from the data
: areas. The Xenix box is date-windowed as well, so some files have current
: year, some current -28.
: ...
: Based on the date of the file I need to ensure the update to the NT system
: is accurate; all of the files affected by date windowing are not updating to
: the NT box with the date from the Xenix system. The above script simply
: tries to set file collision to "backup" for any files whose year is less
: than the date windowed year, and to update for all others.
:
: The problems at this time:
: 1. For "remote set file collision update" I receive an invalid set
: parameter message.
:
You didn't say which version of Kermit you are using Xenix, and which
Kermit program and version is on the other end. It sounds like one or
the other doesn't support this command. Current versions of C-Kermit and
Kermit 95 support both the client and server end of this command:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit.html
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
: 2. The receiving system is not getting the date attribute correctly; the
: date windowed files are all being received as current year, which prevents
: simply updating them.
:
What Kermit program and version does the receiving system have?
: 3. I'm not familiar enough with file/date manipulation to change the file
: creation date in Xenix through kermit. This would be a clean solution. I
: have read many sections of "Using C-Kermit" and the varied and plentiful
: addenda available on the columbia site.
:
Date arithmetic is easy in Kermit, e.g.:
date \fdate(filename)+28years
but at present there is no way to tell Kermit to change a file's creation
date, or to lie about it in the file attribute packet. I'll add this items
to my to-do list to consider for a future release.
- Frank