Reply #19: My 2 cents [View All]

[salvorhardin]

IF the machines have bootable CD drives, then get a copy of Knoppix (or your favorite Linux Live CD) and boot into that. That way you'll never have to worry about corrupting the file system on the DOS/Windows side. Then just write yourself a simple little perl (or even bash) script to do the job. That's what I'd do.
http://www.knoppix.org

In fact... the find command in Linux is exactly what you want. Very flexible. e.g.

find /path/to/windows-or-dos/partition -atime 90 > filelist.txt

would give you exactly those files modified in the last 90 days stored on your Knoppix temporary home directory as file filelist.txt.If you want to match to the beginning of the day 90 days ago and not just 90*24 hours, they you'd also specify -daystart as well. From there you can e-mail (using a webmail service and attaching the file) or copy the file to a floppy.

Here's the man page for find.
http://www.netadmintools.com/html/1find.man.html

Knoppix mounts the Windows partition as read-only by default so there'd be no chance of messing up the files on the harddrive.