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From: sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu (fred sullivan)
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Subject: Re: Shell command question
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Date: 4 Jun 88 12:59:22 GMT
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In article <540@etn-rad.UUCP> markus@etn-rad.UUCP (Markus N. Richardson) writes:
>bae@ati.tis.llnl.gov (Hwa Jin Bae) writes:
>>Regarding the "touch" command in previous posting (my autoexec.bat):
>>	it's a small program that works like UNIX touch.
>>	I'm sure you can easily write your own.
>>
>     Hmm... how about "type nul > filename" <==> "touch filename"
>
This does a wonderful job of touching the file.  It also truncates it
to length 0.  It is therefore not quite equivalent to the usual "touch"
command.

Fred Sullivan				SUNY at Binghamton
Dept. Math. Sciences			Binghamton, NY 13903
					sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu
First you make a roux!