Ftp-WG: RE: MFXX questions

> > I've realized that MFxx is probably a bit misleading in
> > that the 'file' part of the name should really be
> > 'object'... but I'm not sure whether its worth changing
> > the name now (to MOxx)... it depends if I'll get lynched
> > by people who have already implemented MFxx - although a
> > nice backdoor could be to say that MFxx is an alias for
> > MOxx :-)
>
> Don't worry about it.  You've got a name...  stick with it.

Being the sneaky and devious person that I am ;-), in the next draft, I've
changed it from File to Fact, so we have:

MFCT - Modify Fact Creation Time
MFMT - Modify Fact Modification Time
MFF  - Modify Facts

This has two benefits:

- The command names stay the same
- Fact is more accurate than File.. its twiddling the facts and not the
file/dir per se.

> Opening a discussion on naming would only waste WG time. Put it
> this way... most people don't have a clue what the "M stands for
> in MLST, but that has not prevented anyone from implementing
> support for it.

:-)

David Somers

btw, do any of the Ipswitch products implement MFxx?