MDTM
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... MLSD". The existing
command "REST" is modified. Of those, the "SIZE" and "MDTM"
commands, and the modifications to "REST" have been in wide use for
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... convention is preserved in this document, and implies that FTP
commands added by this specification have names that can be
represented in any case. That is, "MDTM" is the same as "mdtm",
"Mdtm" and "MdTm" etc. However note that ALPHA, in particular, is
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... File Modification Time (MDTM) ...
... The FTP command, MODIFICATION TIME (MDTM), can be used to determine
when a file in the server NVFS was last modified. This command has
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... When attempting to restart a RETRieve, the user-FTP can use the MDTM
command or the "modify" fact to check if the modification time of the
source file is more recent than the modification time ...
... When attempting to restart a STORe, the User FTP can use the MDTM
command to discover the modification time of the partially
transferred file. If it is older than the modification time ...
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The syntax for the MDTM command is:
mdtm = "MdTm" SP ...
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As with all FTP commands, the "MDTM" command label is interpreted in
a case-insensitive manner.
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The server-PI will respond to the MDTM command with a 213 reply
giving the last modification time of the file whose pathname was
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... 6], a server-FTP process that
supports the MDTM command MUST include a line containing the single
word "MDTM". This MAY be sent in upper or lower case or a mixture of
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... supports the MDTM command MUST include a line containing the single
word "MDTM". This MAY be sent in upper or lower case or a mixture of
both (it is case insensitive), but SHOULD be transmitted in upper
case only. That is, the response SHOULD be:
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... S> 211- <any descriptive text>
S> ...
S> MDTM
S> ...
S> 211 End
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... MDTM Examples ...
... If we assume the existence of three files, A B and C, a directory D,
two files with names that end with the string "ile6", and no other
files at all, then the MDTM command may behave as indicated. The
"C>" lines are commands from user-PI to server-PI ...
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The description of the modifications to the REST command and the MDTM
and SIZE commands comes from a set of modifications suggested for STD
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