Re: copy, timestamps

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:45:10 -0500
> From: Earnie Boyd <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Quoting Torsten Mohr <address@hidden>:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > just yesterday i found out that the command "copy" in the Dos-Box
> > does not update the timestamp of the destination file.
> >
> > Can anybody confirm this or is this some special behaviour (maybe
> > configurable) in the office?

This is the intended behavior: COPY on DOS and Windows retains the
original file's timestamp.

> > Is there some option i can give to make "copy" update the time stamp?
> >
> > Is there something else i can do?  The command "touch" does not exist.
> >
> 
> more msfile > msfile2

Another way is this:

        copy msfile+nul msfile2