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- University of Vaasa, Finland, Sun IPX sparcstation garbo.uwasa.fi
- has a large collection of PD and shareware PC programs available by
- anonymous ftp or 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.
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- Prof. Timo Salmi
- Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.87.1
- School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
- Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
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-
- 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.
-