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From: kim@enea.UUCP (Kim Walden)
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Subject: Re: Creating a file in csh
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Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 18:43:24 EST
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In article <6177@Glacier.ARPA> reid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) writes:

>Aw, come on, folks. "touch filename" is the best way to create an empty file.
>All of these other schemes, involving echo and cat and what have you,
>require that the poor person reading the code stop and think about what is
>going on, but the "touch" program will (by definition) do nothing other than
>create it.
>-- 
>	Brian Reid	decwrl!glacier!reid
>	Stanford	reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA

But "touch filename" does not create a zero length file, if the file
existed before.  Surely, this is what the discussion is all about?
-- 
	Kim Walden
	ENEA DATA Sweden

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