Dart Support Forum|PowerTCP FTP for ActiveX|Renaming overwrites files

Author	Forum: PowerTCP FTP for ActiveX Topic: Renaming overwrites files
philjeary Philipj@education.co.uk From: Rochester, United Kingdom Posts: 7 Member Since: 05/09/06	posted July 5, 2006 5:55 AM Hi, just a quick question... Is renaming supposed to overwrite existing files? In the example program if I rename a file to have the same name of a file that already exists, the new file simply replaces the old one. Is that supposed to happen? Not a problem if it does, i'd just like to know. I searched the forum in case it had been asked before but I couldnt find anything. Regards, Phil
Raj From: Rome, NY, USA Posts: 389 Member Since: 02/01/06	posted July 5, 2006 9:16 AM Yes, re-naming to a file that already exists overwrites the existing file. Actually it seems RFC 959 does not define if Re-Naming should overwrite files or not. So I think it is okay to give the ability to overwrite the files. And it can be upto the developers to decide how he implements it. However, using a LIST before RENAME method can be used to ensure uniqueness of filenames, and prevent/inform about possible filename conflict. -Raj

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