unknown wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Peter Bailey wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> I need to read some data from some older files and put that info. into
>> simple ASCII text files. But, I want those new text files to have the
>> same time stamp as the original files that the data came from. Is there
>> any way to do that?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Peter
> 
> harp: ~> ri FileUtils.touch
> -------------------------------------------------------- FileUtils#touch
>       touch(list, options = {})
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>       Options: noop verbose
> 
>       Updates modification time (mtime) and access time (atime) of
>       file(s) in +list+. Files are created if they don't exist.
> 
>         FileUtils.touch 'timestamp'
>         FileUtils.touch Dir.glob('*.c');  system 'make'
> 
> 
> -a

Thanks. ri verbage is rarely clear to me. These sample lines definitely 
seem to be referring to Unix stuff. "make" means nothing in Windows. 
where I am. Thanks, anyway.

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