Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!plx!slvblc!richardh From: ihnp4!killer!richardh@sun.com (Richard Hargrove) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc Subject: touch utility for MS-DOS Summary: touch.com, unix-like touch utility for MS-DOS Message-ID: <2446@slvblc.UUCP> Date: 11 Jun 88 06:39:43 GMT Sender: slvblc!dick@ucscc.ucsc.edu Reply-To: ihnp4!killer!richardh@sun.com (Richard Hargrove) Followup-To: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas Lines: 228 Approved: dick@slvblc.UUCP [Appears to work as advertised. Convenient set of options. Works much better than 'type nul > filename' :-) DF] Enclosed is a uuencoded .ARC file containing an MS-DOS version of touch. This is not a plain vanilla version; it supports options to suppress autocreation of non-existing files (-c), list the touched files to stdout (-v), and to allow you to specify the date or time instead of using the current date or time. It accepts multiple filenames and handles wildcard characters in filenames. 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