Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!eurtrx!euraiv1!jvte 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 Lines: 8 > 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 :-)