04-07-2010
Please clarify a few things.
1) Do you only have ftp access to the remote "Windows" machine?
Please bear in mind that the ftp is not shell and that the command set is very limited. Some ftp commands are quite similar to basic shell commands.
2) What exact version of Windows is involved? Please be very precise.
3) Is this a M$ ftp server or something else?
4) Do you you have administrator access to the Windows system to a level where you could set global environment variables? I ask this because it is notoriously difficult to get a M$ Windows system to display a DIR listing in a predicatable manner through ftp without setting a DIRCMD environment variable (see "help DIR"). Even then large directories may be displayed out of order due to underlying limitations of M$ code.
5) Your examples make it clear that the file timestamp is the only way of finding the most recent file. Your example directory when sorted by filename comes out in a different order from when sorted by file timestamp.
6) Footnote: If this is an application under development it is well worth considering including a sortable numeric timestamp in the filename (yyyymmddhhmmssfff).
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
ftp_geturl
ftp::geturl(3tcl) ftp client ftp::geturl(3tcl)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
NAME
ftp::geturl - Uri handler for ftp urls
SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.2
package require ftp::geturl ?0.2.1?
::ftp::geturl url
_________________________________________________________________
DESCRIPTION
This package provides a command which wraps around the client side of the ftp protocol provided by package ftp to allow the retrieval of
urls using the ftp schema.
API
::ftp::geturl url
This command can be used by the generic command ::uri::geturl (See package uri) to retrieve the contents of ftp urls. Internally it
uses the commands of the package ftp to fulfill the request.
The contents of a ftp url are defined as follows:
file The contents of the specified file itself.
directory
A listing of the contents of the directory in key value notation where the file name is the key and its attributes the asso-
ciated value.
link The attributes of the link, including the path it refers to.
BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. Please report such in the category ftp of
the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883]. Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for
either package and/or documentation.
SEE ALSO
ftpd, mime, pop3, smtp
KEYWORDS
ftp, internet, net, rfc 959
CATEGORY
Networking
ftp 0.2.1 ftp::geturl(3tcl)