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- "Touch" Files
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- Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1992
- Transversal Design
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- Transversal Design
- PO Box 66082
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- First Things First:
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- Please take the time to read the License, Warranty and Registration
- information. If you have received this file without printed documentation,
- this information is contained in the file named LICENSE.DOC.
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- The information contained in this file/pamphlet outlines copyright
- information, licensing agreement, warranty, technical support policies and
- additional information about registering your software. It also includes
- descriptions of other programs by Transversal Design in which you might be
- interested. Please take the time to read this information to be sure you
- understand your rights and the expectations/guidelines of Transversal Design.
- TOUCHIT
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- TouchIt came about one evening while writing the documentation for ZipNew.
- We needed something which we could include with ZipNew for non-programmer
- users which would change the time and date of a file to give examples of the
- use of ZipNew. The "touch" utility supplied by Borland with all of their
- programming languages was very useful to a point, but a) we couldn't include
- it with our programs without copyright violations/licensing, and b) every time
- we've used TOUCH, we wanted to set a specific time and date, so we exited to
- DOS, typed TIME to set the time, typed DATE to set the date, typed TOUCH to
- touch the files, then typed TIME and DATE to reset the time and date. Does
- this sound like a computer working for you?
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- We decided to "throw" TOUCHIT out there for the general programming community.
- TOUCHIT is a "new" program to the Transversal Design Utilities. Earlier
- versions of the LICENSE.DOC file (i.e., last night's upload) do not have it in
- the descriptions.
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- The documentation for TOUCHIT will be very brief. TOUCHIT will take a file
- (or files) and alter it's time and date to a) the current time and date, or b)
- a specified time and date. This is useful for any programmer using a MAKE or
- BUILD option with their compilers, along with anyone using a program such as
- ZIPNEW (hint... download it) which uses the file's date and time for decision
- making.
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- Usage:
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- The command line for TOUCHIT is:
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- TOUCHIT mask [/d[=]xx/xx/xx] [/t[=]xx:xx] [/h|/?] [/L] [/g] where:
- mask Mask to match, such as *.PAS, *.C or *.DOC
- /d[=]xx/xx/xx date in the format of /d=01/01/90
- /t[=]xx:xx time in the format of /t=01:23
- NOTE: date MUST be 8 characters long and time must be 5
- characters long in military format (hours=0..23)
- /h or /? help only.
- /L Show log of files upon which to be acted without
- actually "touching" them.
- /g Look for mask over entire drive.
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- Specifying /L will just "show" or log the files upon which action would be
- taken without actually changing their time/date. /L may be entered as
- lowercase, but we used uppercase because /l is ambiguous (is it an L or a 1
- [one]?).
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- Specifying /G will tell TOUCHIT to act upon all files matching the mask across
- the drive, no matter what directory they are in. Otherwise, only the files in
- the current directory will be acted upon.
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- Any legal DOS mask may be specified. The program assumes the current
- directory. No directory may be specified with this version. If user interest
- is high enough, we will make the appropriate changes to be able to specify a
- path-specific mask while maintaining the ability to work globally.
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- As with all Transversal Design utilities, you may specify /H or /? for help,
- without proceeding.
- TOUCH.COM is copyright Borland International, Inc.
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- The inclusion of this product name in this documentation is no indication
- whatsoever that Borland has used or endorses this product.