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From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
Subject: netstd: ftp's newer and non-preserved modtime
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Package: netstd
Version: 2.13-1

Since ftp doesn't preserve modtime on fetched files the "newer" command
doesn't work as well as it could.  The first time you "newer" a file
all is well, but if you run "newer" again you get

    Local file "file" is newer than remote file "file"

since the local file's time is set to the time it was fetched.

It would be nice if you could turn off that message because it's the
only thing which prints out if you run newer commands in an otherwise
successfull ftp script.  Alternately, it would be nice if you could tell
"newer" to preserve the modtime.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.3
Kernel Version: Linux jones 2.0.27 #2 Sat Mar 22 19:27:36 EST 1997 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages netstd depends on:
cpp	Version: 2.7.2.1-8
libc5	Version: 5.4.23-3
libreadline2	Version: 2.1-2
ncurses3.0	Version: 1.9.9e-1
netbase	Version: 2.13-1

--- Begin /etc/slip.dip (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access

--- End /etc/slip.dip