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    From Marco R@2:280/2030 to g00r00 on Sun Feb 13 09:43:51 2022
    Hello g00r00,

    I am working on some old filestat utils I created and was wondering if you could add two date fields for files.

    RecFileList has one date (date uploaded). What I am missing is the actual file date for a file (modified date in Linux). This would also be nice for the file listing.

    The second one is the last downloaded date for a specific file. Could be nice for cleaning up also.

    Gtx!

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  • From g00r00@1:129/215 to Marco R on Mon Feb 14 13:55:47 2022
    I am working on some old filestat utils I created and was wondering if
    you could add two date fields for files.

    There isn't any space left in those records without a change to the structure but I will do it soon (tm).

    They are mostly untouched since the 1990s when supporting long file names in a BBS database caused me to be very lean on the data I stored for performance and memory reasons (Mystic had those ANSI scrolling file lists and long file name support way back when DOS and 512kb memory was a thing and it had to allow you to scroll freely through 10s of thousands of files within those limitations!)

    Thats no longer as big of an issue so I will add those fields, but not in A48 as I plan to release that very soon (probably in a week or so) so I can get a good stable version out there.

    I'll probably do a revamp sometime after A48 which will include those fields for you. I need to revisit a lot of the old structures anyway to make sure they are 2038 compatible!

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