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From: jvte@euraiv1.UUCP (Jan van 't Ent)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: NULL-file (was: Zoo utilities)
Message-ID: <800@euraiv1.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 88 11:59:45 GMT
References: <3676@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: Erasmus University EF/AIV,Rotterdam,Netherlands
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>	TYPE NUL >FOO
>to create a 0-byte file called FOO.  Much easier than DEBUG.... (unlike the
>other methods, it does clobber any existing file.  Using >>FOO preserves
>the file, but doesn't update its time)

Even easier than that, you could use REM>FOO (or even REM>$ which takes only
six keystrokes, although it takes two shiftkey-combinations :-)