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From: mikep@ism780c.isc.com (Michael A. Petonic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Shell command question
Keywords: shell msdos autoexec.bat
Message-ID: <10555@ism780c.isc.com>
Date: 6 Jun 88 04:30:16 GMT
References: <1102@cod.NOSC.MIL> <9301@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <22243@tis.llnl.gov> <540@etn-rad.UUCP>
Reply-To: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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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"

Can you say "Bye Bye file?"  I knew you could.  

The touch utility in MS-DOS is probably needed.  Surely, truncating
the file (while updating the datestamp) is not the general-purpose
solution to touch.

-MikeP