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From: tr@wind.bellcore.com (tom reingold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: TOUCH on IBM-PC?
Message-ID: <2528@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 09:28:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: bellcore.2528
Posted: Wed Sep 16 09:28:33 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 18-Sep-87 07:01:34 EDT
References: <1334@obelix.liu.se>
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Reply-To: tr@wind.UUCP (tom reingold)
Organization: Bellcore, Morristown, NJ
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Keywords: Nethack, NDMAKE, TOUCH

In article <1334@obelix.liu.se> bo-j@obelix.liu.se (Bo Jansson) writes:
>In the distrubution of nethack there was a makefile for ndmake
>enclosed. This makefile tries to execute TOUCH. I don't have
>TOUCH on my PC, so I replaced TOUCH FILE with:
>TYPE FILE > A.A
>COPY A.A FILE
>DEL A.A
>
>That would do the job! But however, is TOUCH a famous program to the
>IBMPC that everyone have? I don't have it.
>-- 
>      Bo Jansson,   Linkoping  Sweden
>	
>UUCP: bo-j@obelix.liu.se, or {mcvax,munnari,uunet}!enea!liuida!obelix!bo-j

I don't have a public domain version of either touch or make, buut
there are some good commercial products.  I have not noticed any flaws
in the Make that comes with TurboC.  However, I am not a Make maven so
I would not notice esoteric deficiencies.  Touch comes with TurboC and
with MKS tools.

Here is a Touch.Bat that is more reliable and faster than Bo's.

echo off
copy %1/b,,+ %1 > nul

Name:		Tom Reingold
Disclaimer:	Nothing I say is an opinion.
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