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From: bicker@hoqax.UUCP (The Resource, Poet of Quality)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Shell command question
Message-ID: <1555@hoqax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 88 12:43:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: hoqax.1555
References: <1102@cod.NOSC.MIL> <9301@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <22243@tis.llnl.gov> <1246@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
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In article <1246@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>, sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu.UUCP writes:
| 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.

What you want is "type nul >> filename" but, as we all know is the
general case, MS-DOS just can't match UN*X for power and
versitility.
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