RE: Preserve file date/time

["Goodbar, Loyd (ETS - Water Valley)" <LGoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: "Goodbar, Loyd (ETS - Water Valley)" <LGoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, Scott.

I'm querying a specific server (Windows 2000 FTP server) for data. I've
already worked out the utime API, I just didn't know how to pull in the
date/time from the remote file. 

I understand your concerns about parsing a directory listing, it's the same
issue with parsing spooled output between various OS/400 releases. I'll try
the mtime approach first to see how that works.

Thanks,
Loyd

Loyd Goodbar
Senior programmer/analyst
BorgWarner
E/TS Water Valley
662-473-5713
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Klement [mailto:sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 14:08
To: ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Preserve file date/time

Sender: Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hello,

> When retrieving data from a remote server to the iSeries, is it possible 
> to preserve the file's date/time from the remote server? If a file is 
> dated 08:00, can I retrieve it and have it remain 08:00 instead of 12:08 
> when I retrieved it?

Sometimes.  The FTP_mtime() API from FTPAPI can return the "date last 
modified" from some FTP servers. (Not all of them support this, however.)

You can then use the utime() API (supplied with OS/400 V3R1 or later) to 
set your file to match.

If you can't use FTP_mtime() you might be able to make it work using 
FTP_dir() to get the directory listing and extract teh time from that 
listing. However, I strongly recommend that you do not use this approach, 
because there's no standard for the format of the data in the FTP_dir() 
listing. Every server's information can be different, so you can 
potentially end up with code that works with only particular FTP servers.

Good luck!

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