Key features:

• Only uploads modified files (compares file sizes and checks the archive attribute of the local files).
• Doesn't use any separate databases for keeping track of what needs to be done.
• Logs it's activities.
• Removes any files/directories from WWW/FTP server if it doesn't exist on hard drive.
• New in V2: Automatically update date and time stamp in html pages. (Another visitors complaint :-)
• Soon to come in V2: Automatically add file date and time for links to binaries. (Actually this is what I set out to do when I started working on the new version).

The auto update features

To use the new auto update features in this version, add the comments:
<!-- lastupdate_date --> immediately followed by a yyyy-mm-dd formatted date
<!-- lastupdate_time --> immediately followed by a hh:mm:ss.

With the new script, any file ending with ".html" is scanned, line by line, for any occurrence of the above listed comments. If it finds them, it replaces whatever follows those comments with the time or date of the file (this is the reason you need to place those extra characters after the comments).
For a real-life demonstration, check the HTML source for this page. The date and time found at the bottom of this page is generated with the script.

Requirements:

• The Obvious: computer, OS/2 (or any other system with Rexx), etc..
• IBM TCP/IP REXX FTP API (Included in OS/2 Warp4, and IBM ObjectRexx)
• IBM ObjectRexx for Version 2 of the script

Exciting news: Okey, maybe not exciting, but news none the less - I successfully ran the script (not V2) on a friends Windows2k system which had IBM Object Rexx installed! (I didn't need to modify the script).

Nota bene
Since the script doesn't use any database files, but rather gathers all data it needs each time it is invoked, the script is only usable for personal home pages. I don't recommend anyone try to upload a major web site using the script.
Before you use it, you will need to configure the script. Change the FTP server address, user name and password. In addition, the output from your ISP's FTP server may not look as the output my isp's, so you may have to hack the parsing routines; a task which isn't hard, but can be very tricky if you have no Rexx/programming experience. As time permits, I can try to help those of you who would like help reconfiguring the script.

In the future, I will make it more modular so configuration for other server output's will be much easier.
Another nota bene is that I haven't tried it much; I don't know how well it works. It's more fun that way. :-)

To Rexx gurus: Ugh! Me native tongue not Rexx. Me speak normally C/C++. Optimize - do yes, complain - please no.

Here's the first version/revision script. (updated 2000-07-01)
Version2 is in the works, it requires ObjectRexx, but it can automatically update the 'last updated' information in your html scripts.