Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site voder.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!nsc!voder!gino From: gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch) Newsgroups: net.sources Subject: Re: PC-DOS/MS-DOS 'touch' command Message-ID: <451@voder.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 19:03:10 EDT Article-I.D.: voder.451 Posted: Tue Oct 9 19:03:10 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 08:22:29 EDT References: <239@haddock.UUCP> Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara Lines: 19 [ne touchez pas] > The touch command, a subset of COPY, is documented as COPY fname+,, > ima!haddock!johna Try: copy file1 file2 copy file2+,, comp file1 file2 The behavior of this sequence led to my posting of a program that works right. If the command sequence seems to work, start with another `file1'. I'll leave the reason for the problem as an exercise for the reader. BTW, "copy fname+nul file" doesn't work the same way that "copy fname+,," doesn't. -- Gene E. Bloch (...!nsc!voder!gino)