Subj : FileAge - Touch
To   : Gerald Miller
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Fri Jun 28 2002 08:03 am

Hi Gerald.

23-Jun-02 18:17:12, Gerald Miller wrote to Jasen Betts


 GM> Hello Jasen,

 GM> In an effort to get some traffic flow here...

 GM> I routinely write text files and would like to touch the date/time
 GM> of these files to be equal to the date/time of an existing file.

 GM> Would you please explain how I may take the %@fileage[filename,w]
 GM> and use it for %@fileage[filetext,w]???

the easiest way is to convert to human readable form (filedate etc) and
then feed that to touch.

I played with it a bit it seems to work:
I'm pretty sure this needs version 7 of 4dos

  set f1=filetext
  set f0=filename
  touch /tw %@filetime[ %f0% ,w,s] /dw %@filedate[ %f0% ,w , 4 ] %f1

as an undocumented feature touch does honour seconds in the /t oprion.

There seems to be a bug in %@filedate with dates after about 2079
somewhere.  4DOS 7.00A  this could be worked around (the dates come
out exacltly 1900 years early) or it may be fixed in later revisions of 4dos

 -=> Bye <=-

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