I years ago set up a process to mirror the Marist pipelines site, which might be easily adaptable to your situation. It uses ftp as transport, and sets the timestamp of the local files to match the source. Send me a note off-list if you're interested. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support
mhard...@us.ibm.com mike.b.hard...@kp.org mikehard...@mindless.com (925) 926-3179 (w) (925) 457-9183 (c) IM: VMBearDad (AIM), mbhcpcvt (Y!) CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List <CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 10/21/2009 02:56:51 PM: > From: Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> > To: CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU > Date: 10/21/2009 02:58 PM > Subject: Re: Move files and preserve timestamps > Sent by: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List <CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > On 10/21/09 15:47, Avery, Matt wrote: > > One way of sending files from unix along with metadata is to put the > > files in a .tar archive. > > > Of course. Or zip. ARCUTIL undoes zip, I think. > > > Unpacking .tar in pipes would be a doddle. > > > Not if I have to write it. Can I steal it? (What's > a doddle?) > > > > Only > > downside is that you would have to deal with all the ASCII/EBCDIC > > translation, rather than offloading that job to FTP. > > > There are stages for that. DEBLOCK | XLATE. > > I used to know a lot of this stuff. > > -- gil