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- From: abcdefgx@cs.tu-berlin.de (Hans-Christian Gehrcke)
- Subject: Re: TOUCH ME! TOUCH ME! YES!!!!
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- References: <1992Sep03.221731.19120@ecst.csuchico.edu> <-V9Dr*lm0@light.fipnet.fi>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:49:41 GMT
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- In article <-V9Dr*lm0@light.fipnet.fi>, terje@light.fipnet.fi (Terje Bergstrom) writes:
- > In article <1992Sep03.221731.19120@ecst.csuchico.edu>, Boy Wonder writes:
- >
- > > Does anyone know of a UNIX-like "Touch" utility for 1.3?
- >
- > There are many of those. For example, Dice comes with a Touch, so does
- > SKsh (internal, I think) and CShell (again internal).
-
- But pay attention! There are several programs out there all named "touch",
- which do NOT EXACTLY do what the Unix-touch does.
- Unix-touch makes an open- and a close- systemcall. This updates the time
- stamp of the file, but it also _creates_ an empty file if it didn't exists!
- Some Amiga-incarnations of touch only 'setdate'. but the second feature
- is important - at least for me. You can easily install files like
- DOCS_on_the_2nd_Disk or !!READ_DOCS!! or something like this.
- Touch from DICE is a "real" touch, but I don't know about the other touches
- mentioned above.
- But if you don't mind not having the second behaviour, then of course all
- progs do well for you, including 'setdate' from ARP, I think.
-
- See you,
- hcg
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