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TOUCH, written by Kai Iske July 27. 1993
This is PUBLIC DOMAIN; you may do with it whatever you like
If you change/republish/delete/sell the program or do anything similar, please
be so kind to keep my name within the program and all the other files.
I wrote Touch because I needed a Touch Command from within an ARexx-Script, but
the ARexx-Script couldn`t reach the CSH`s internal touch.
TOUCH was written using SAS 6.3 / 6.50....
!!! Touch requires OS 2.x and up to run !!!
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What does TOUCH ???
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Well, it touches every file matching a given pattern like "#?.c" or any
particular file like ":CPrgs/Utils/Dummy.c". If a particualar file, i.e. a
filename not containing wildcards, doesn`t exist it will be created, just the
way the UNIX touch command does it. You may give any number of
filenames/patterns on the commandline and Touch will touch `em, i.e. setting
the filedate to the current date.
Example :
Touch #?.c Dummy.doc Zaphod.o "Hello World.c"
You see you can give any number of filenames/patterns on the commandline,
but be sure to enclose filenames, which contain spaces, within quotes.
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How to install TOUCH ???
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Simply copy it to a directory within you search path (eg. C:)
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Version 1.0
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- initial release
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Version 1.1
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- Reduced stack usage
- Reduced executable size
- Recompiled using SAS 6.50
- Added CTRL-C checking
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Version 1.2
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- Touch will issue a warning if no matching files could be
found for a pattern
(Suggested by : Dan Barret)
Hope you like it, if not, delete it......
So long,
Kai
--- Kai Iske
Brucknerstrasse 18, 63452 Hanau, Germany, Tel.: +49-(0)6181-850181
Z-Net : KAI@SWEET.ZER usenet : kai@iske.adsp.sub.org
internet : iske@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de IRC:kiske
---- Life sucks ----