Bill & Others,

>If you are merging two files that do not have a date (because the web
>server doesn't supply one) you still want the newer file -- so how do
>you pick which is the newer file?

If a filename stored in the index doesn't have a last-modified date, can you use the last-modified date 
if the index itself?  That would mean that the entry in the most recently created index would have 
precedence, which I guess is what most users would want.

Alex Lyons.

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