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From: davidr@hplsla.HP.COM (David M. Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Zero byte DOS files
Message-ID: <3130034@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 25 Aug 90 17:17:54 GMT
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Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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I have never found a way to get MS-DOS BATch files to preform this
trick, which I have often had need for.  Thus I turn to the MKS Toolkit
which has this capability in its 'test' command.  Not only can I test
if a file is zero length, I can also test if a filename in a directory
listing is that of another directory, and several other tests.