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Re: Ka9q, how to close socket?

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From: James R Grinter
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 00:00
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In article <852752397snz.6764@grempc.demon.co.uk> Graham@grempc.demon.co.uk (Graham E Kinns) writes:

[I answered most of this to John by email, but I'll pick up one suggestion]

>John Washington wrote:
> >Of course I wish to compare that date with a local
> >file date/time within DOS (getfdatetime) -- are there
> 
> If you use fstat() (not stat() 'cause it's unstable with KA9Q) 
> instead, it'll handle the timezone conversion so you get the 

it's generally not recommended (and I can't remember exactly what
the RFC ended up saying) to use anything but the value actually
given you by the server in it's Last-Modified: response.

Thus it really becomes 'If this isn't the current file you have'.

James.
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