richardh@killer.UUCP (Richard Hargrove) (06/09/88)
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The recent flurry of messages dealing with ways to kludge up a touch utility
implies that a lot of people don't have the real thing. For those who are
interested, I've posted TOUCH.ARC to comp.binaries.ibm.pc. Here is the
intoduction to the message:
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Enclosed is a uuencoded .ARC file containing an MS-DOS version of touch.
This is not a plain vanilla version; it supports options to suppress
autocreation of non-existing files (c), list the touched files to stdout (v),
and to allow you to specify the date or time instead of using the current
date or time. It accepts multiple filenames and handles wildcard characters
in filenames. Its usage message is:
usage: touch [-cv] [-d date] [-t time] filespec...
The .ARC header is:
PKXARC FAST! Archive Extract Utility Version 3.5 04-27-87
Copyright (c) 1986,1987 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved. PKXARC/h for help
Searching: TOUCH.ARC
Filename Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC
-------- ------ ------ ------ ----- ---- ---- ---
TOUCH.COM 9320 Crunched 7605 19% 09-27-87 18:50:46 AA09
TOUCH.MAN 2013 Crunched 1244 39% 09-27-87 13:54:56 B45A
----- ------ ------ -----
0002 11333 8849 22%
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Watch for it to appear shortly.
enjoy,
richard hargrove
...!{ihnp4 | codas | cbosgd}!killer!richardh
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