Ftp-WG: mdtm and mlsd commands

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 08:36:24 , Robert Elz wrote:

>     Date:        Sat, 24 Jan 2004 05:30:08 
>     From:        "Anthony R. Gold" <[email protected]>
>     Message-ID:  <[email protected]>
>
>   | 2) Could someone explain to me the status of the mdtm command?
>
> Perhaps.... Its definition should appear in an RFC sometime relatively
> soon, we hope.

Thank you.
 
>   | I've found both clients and servers which allow mdtm to be used to set the
>   | modify-fact of files on servers, but I don't see that documented in any
>   | RFC or proposal.
>
> Anything that does that is broken, it is a query command only.  There
> are no standardised "set attributes" command, for any attributes I'm
> aware of (possibly excluding the name...)

That's a real shame as it prevents FTP from being used in mirroring.

I'll keep tuned in here.

Regards,

Tony