Hi guys,
I'm wondering if there is any reasonably simple way to cause a peer to peer 98 box, used as a communal file store, to create a plain text list of accessed files with time/date?

Is there any utility available for 98 to do this, or any commercial software available? I don't need or want anything more complicated than just a dated plain text list of accessed files.

Many thanks in advance for any pointers offered.

Regards, Andy.
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Windows 98 runs on MS-DOS version 7, using the FAT32 filesystem which does not enable files to reveal as much information about themselves as NTFS is capable of.

Beyond the long filename, the 8.3 DOS filename, the Attributes for Hidden, System, Readonly, Archive and Directory, and the file size, there are three Date/timestamps - Modified, Created and Accessed - which is the information you require.

However, Accessed is a date-only field, with all times represented by 00:00 as far as I can see.

The standard DOS 7 Dir command does not show what you want, neither does the Windows 98 Explorer as-is. If you were, or knew a whiz with the Windows scripting language, Javascript, HTML or VBscript, you could probably define the Windows 98 Explorer window to display and save your files exactly as you wish, since the Active Desktop feature allows you to customize all Explorer Windows as HTML documents in Windows 98.

Third party file management tools were available for Windows 98 by the shedload on computer magazine cover disks in the late 1990's, just before the internet took over as the major means of distributing small software shareware and freeware items.

Now there are very few utilities that will run on anything less than Windows 2000 or XP. Someone will now prove me wrong about this. :) Still, your system is networked, so there's still some hope that a utility will work across the network.

As far as utilities I know that work on Windows 7 and 98 (and everything inbetween), Karen's Directory Printer http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp will certainly give the Filename/Accessed_date (plus any other selected available data) in the form of a text file.

There must be many others, and a simple javascript app should be able to deliver the data you need, so you could ask in the forum here: http://tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=216

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OK, thanks for your response.
I'm going to try another search of the internet first to see if what I want exists, then failing that I'll take up your suggestion of asking on the JavaScript forum.
Thanks for your suggestions - I now have something to go on.

Regards, Andy.
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actually /DIR does do what you are looking for, you just need the right switch take a look here: http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/DOS7/z-dir.html