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Number   :  20
Date     :  2001-05-13
Author   :  Kan Yabumoto
Subject  :  Re: XXCOPY in a Netware Mapped drive
Size(KB) :  1



Dear Don:

You are absolutely right. What we need is a way to specify the tolerance
in timestamp-comarison. In my earlier post (#15)

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xxcopy/message/15

I mentioned it as a future switch. It would work like this:

--------Caution, the description below is not implemented yet -----
(this is how it would be implemented in the future, if ever)

The function will called /FF (Fuzzy filetime)

/FF // default = +/- 2 seconds
/FF+p // adjust by + p seconds
/FF-n // adjust by - n seconds
/FFx // adjust by +x and -x seconds
/FF+p /FF-n // adjust by +p and -n seconds

Here, /FF-2 is equivalent to the /FT switch and
/FF+2 is equivalent to the /FR switch.

Thus, the new /FF switch will supercede and make the
current awkward /FT, /FR switches obsolete.

I'm not sure when I will get around to add this. But, this
thing has been in my mind for some time as many others are...

Kan Yabumoto


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At 2001-05-13 09:02, you wrote:
>Hi Kan,
>
>I may be missing some basics by jumping into the middle of a discussion, but
>could the timestamp difference created when copying files between different
>file systems be resolved by means of a tolerance option parameter under
>xxcopy? For example, if the file sizes are the same, one could specify an
>option that would treat the files as identical if the time difference is
>less than, say, 3 seconds.
>
>Regards,
>Dan



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