richardh@killer.UUCP (Richard Hargrove) (06/06/88)
In article <540@etn-rad.UUCP>, markus@etn-rad.UUCP (Markus N. Richardson) writes: > Hmm... how about "type nul > filename" <==> "touch filename" This will work to create a new file. Unfortunately, it will gut a pre-existing file. At first I assumed that type nul >>filename would work, but I can't get MS-DOS 3.3 to touch the file with that command invocation (it seems to have no effect). richard hargrove ...!{ihnp4 | codas | cbosgd}!killer!richardh --------------------------------------------