Performing content comparison even when no filesize returned

[johnm]

In another thread Craig wrote "BC doesn't perform content comparisons on files that don't have sizes (to keep it from doing it twice after file operations)."

I have implemented an FTP server for a set of "files" that it's inefficient to compute the size of when presenting a directory listing. I'd still like BC to perform content comparisons. Any chance of an option to support this behaviour?

[Zoë]

I can add it to the todolist, but it will be a while before I can get to it. You could return a size of 0 until then.

[johnm]

I found it was necessary to return a value greater than zero. So for the moment I'm returning a size of 1 for every file.

[johnm]

Hi Craig and you other Scooter(er)s,

Can I nudge this issue and see how close it is to the top of the pile?

Thanks,
John

[Aaron]

Thanks for the nudge, John. This is still on our list to look into, but we haven't been able to yet.

[johnm]

Another gentle nudge. An enhancement/fix for this would be greatly appreciated.

John

[johnm]

Hi Scooter-folk,

Any chance of this being part of 3.2?

Hoping,

John

[Chris]

Hi John,

Sorry, it doesn't look like this is in the 3.2 beta that we just released. For a full list of changes in the beta, see the betalog: http://www.scootersoftware.com/BetaLog.txt

[johnm]

:-(

Maybe next time?

John