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News on the TSUTLB package by Timo Salmi in reverse order
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University of Vaasa, Finland, Linux Pentium garbo.uwasa.fi has a
large collection of PD and shareware PC programs available by
anonymous FTP, WWW (World Wide Web) and mail server. The file
/pc/ts/0news-ts contains news about the TS-programs in the /pc/ts
directory (in reverse order). This text, which you now have, is an
extract from the 0news-ts file and the Usenet news.
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Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of news:comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at ftp:// & http://garbo.uwasa.fi archives 193.166.120.5
Department of Accounting and Business Finance ; University of Vaasa
ts@uwasa.fi http://uwasa.fi/~ts BBS 961-3170972; FIN-65101, Finland
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Sun 3-Dec-95: I have made an update
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsutlb21.zip
tsutlb21.zip Timo's 2nd utility set
Updated "TOUCH.EXE Change date/time stamp of files"
- If the file to be touched does not exist, the program optionally
creates an empty file and then proceeds to touch its date/time
stamp.
- Added examples of usage to the help screen and the documentation.
:
Updated "DIRE.EXE Extended directory". Added to it a new switch /c
which displays the directory list in color using ansi.sys or a
similar screen driver. Note that if you do not have ansi.sys (or a
compatible driver) installed, using the /c switch will produce
somewhat confusing looking output with all the escape sequences
displayed.
As for the other two programs in the package, I have updated my
address information. The functions of the programs are unaltered.
Added FILE_ID.DIZ "Brief characterization of TSUTLB". Some BBS
systems scan for a FILE_ID.DIZ in uploaded packages and if found use
its contents as the description in their annotated file list.
Where possible, the programs now reserve less memory in running.
(I adjusted the compilation parameters.)
Sat 21-Mar-92: Updated TOUCH.EXE for altering the date stamps of
files. The month can now be also given as a three letters. Thus
examples of acceptable dates include 21-3-92 21-Mar-92 21/03/1992
21.3.92 today oldate and /fReferenceFile. This file is part of the
thus updated garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutlb20.zip utility collection.
Sun 13-Oct-91: garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsutld19.arc: Updated my
TOUCH.EXE program for altering the date/time stamps of files. Yes,
there are a lot of touch programs around, but I want to have my own
in order to have the features I like and need. These features
include
- Handling of seconds, too
- Display of the change to be made and (optional) confirmation
before touching
- oldate, oldtime, today, and now accepted along with conventional
date and time notation
- Option to "copy" the date/time stamp of another file
- Detection of read-only, hidden, and system files
The new /f switch "copying" the date/time stamp from another file is
particularly useful if you want to run your file through a filter,
but at the same time (pardon the pun) retain its original date/time
stamp. Then you can use a batch like
filter < YourFile > tmp
touch tmp /n /fYourFile
copy tmp YourFile > nul
del tmp > nul
If you have several files you want to run through this same filter,
name the above batch, say mybatch and substitute all YourFile
occurrences with %1. Then use e.g.
for %f in (*.txt) do call mybatch %f
You'll need at least MsDos 3.3 for the latter trick. If you are new
to advanced MsDos usage and batch programming, it pays to figure out
the above tricks. By the time you have worked out the logic you will
probably have learned something.
Mon 16-Apr-90: Noticed a small, but a very annoying mistake in my
touch utility. When touch asks for confirmation [y,n,q], the n (that
is no) option did not work but was taken as yes. The package
tsutlb17.arc has hence been updated to be (/pc/ts/)tsutlb18.arc.
Fri 13-Apr-90: I have updated my touch utility which can be used in
the usual manner to change date and time stamps of files. There is a
number of improvements in the details to enhance the flexibility of
the program:
- The confirmation [y,n,q] no longer requires pressing the enter key.
- Keywords 'oldate' and 'oldtime' are available for added flexibility
along with 'today' and 'now', or giving then explicitly.
- The date can be given without the year as day-month. The current year is
then the default.
- Date can use . and / along with the former -
- Time can use . along with the former :
Usage: TOUCH filename [(new date dd-mm[-[yy]yy]) (new time hh:mm[:ss])]
The new version is in the updated (/pc/ts/)tsutlb17.arc package.
Wed 20-Dec-89: Updated file datestamp and timestamp touch and go :-)
utility TOUCH.EXE. Petri Hartoma (ph62303@alva.tut.fi) suggested
that the request for confirmation prior touching be optionally
turned off. A new /n switch takes care of this. Thanks, Petri, for
the suggestion. The year in the date need no longer four digits
long, two can be optionally used. - Incidentally, why another touch
utility, since there already are many around? Because there are two
features which I have noticed missing in many of them. The first is
being able to timestamp also the seconds. The second is the
safeguard of the (optional) confirmation before touching. - I have
added new switches to the DIRE.EXE extended directory. These
programs are contained in the updated package /pc/ts/tsutlb16.arc.
Thu 26-Oct-89: I have a private mailing list for emailing these
update news. Especially, if you have my programs downloadable at
your site or your BBS you are welcome to ask for inclusion on this
list.
Thu 29-Jun-89: I have also updated the second utility collection to
be tsutlb15.arc, but here the changes are minor, so if you already
have tsutlb14.arc don't bother.
Sun 28-May-89: I have released a new version of my second utilities
collection. At the same time I have changed its name to
tsutlb14.arc from earlier ts2utl13.arc. There is a new touch.exe
utility in the collection. Chars.exe and setgra.exe have been
upgraded.