Comparing Versions of Stacks

Yates, Glen JAMES.G.YATES at saic.com
Fri Aug 23 13:35:04 EDT 2002


> Does anybody know of a way to compare MetaCard stacks (not apps, just
> stacks) on my local hard disk with similar stacks named the 
> same names on an
> ftp site to see which one is the more recent version?  The 
> only way I know
> to do this is to compare the size of the two files which 
> comes up as the
> second item when I get the detailed files of each stack.  
> This seems like
> kind of a funky way to do it.

Yes, that seems especially funky, since I know of no way to get a date from
a file's size.

You'll probably have more success using the 5th item of the detailed files
which is the modification date.

-Glen Yates



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