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From: markz@microsoft.UUCP (Mark Zbikowski)
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Subject: RE: touching files
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Date: Sat, 25-Aug-84 14:13:05 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 25 14:13:05 1984
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	Does anyone know of an easy way to "touch" a file in MSDOS?
	i.e to modify the time stamp to the current time.
	There must be some clever dos call that will do such a thing.

Two ways:

o   Ugly:  Open file for I/O, read first byte, seek back to 0 and write it back.

o   Clean(er): Open file (open system call) get current date/time (getdate and
	gettime system calls) set the time on the handle (filetimes system call)
	and close it.