mas@ecsvax.UUCP (08/23/84)
*********** Does anyone know of an easy way to "touch" a file in MSDOS? i.e to modify the time stamp to the current time. There must be some clever dos call that will do such a thing. Thanks in advance, mark shifman ...{decvax,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!mas
fan@UCI-750A.ARPA (08/27/84)
From: Roy Fan <fan@UCI-750A.ARPA> The command mentioned in previous message works with DOS 1.1, I don't know about whether it will work under DOS 2.x.
broehl@wateng.UUCP (Bernie Roehl) (08/27/84)
Easy -- just use INT 21H, function code 57 (get/set a file's date and time). It's documented on page D-51 of the DOS 2.00 manual. -- -Bernie Roehl (University of Waterloo) ...decvax!watmath!wateng!broehl
fan@UCI-750A.ARPA (09/01/84)
From: Roy Fan <fan@UCI-750A.ARPA> If you just want to update the time stamp of the file to current time, the simplest way to do is to copy the file onto itself by A>COPY/B File_Name+ ; if the file is binary or A>COPY File_Name+ ; if the file is text where File_Name is any valid file name on your disk Roy Fan