"C-SIX/400" (was RE: ATTRIB (Using chmod instead))

| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
| Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 5:59 PM
| Subject: RE: ATTRIB (Using chmod instead)

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| But now we digress into the land of *nix, at which point it
| quickly becomes
| a matter of opinion, rather than fact.
|

| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of thomas@inorbit.com
| Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 12:10 AM
| Subject: RE: ATTRIB (Using chmod instead)
|
|
| On Wed, 19 December 2001, Scott Klement wrote:
|
| > Incidentally, the touch command has a "-c" switch that will prevent it
| > from creating files when they don't exist.  So you could solve your
| > *.jsp problem by simply typing:
| >
| >      touch -c *.jsp
|
| A faster way is:
|
|  ===>  call qshell/touch ('-c' '*.jsp')
|
| No need to jump into QSH first. That is, I just realized these
| can be called direct from a command line. (Duh!) Now to see what
| good that does me...



| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of jpcarr@tredegar.com
| Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 7:29 AM
| Subject: RE: ATTRIB (Using chmod instead)
|
| >I know of is legal. Inserting things like '*' is not recommended, because
| >it's confusing, and harder to work with, but it's certainly legal. :)
|
| You mean more confusing than this?
|
| >>  $ ls -l \**  -rw-r--r--  1 scotty  wheel  0 Dec 19 16:26 *.jsp
|
|
| RDLMAO
|



How about something like "C-SIX/400" (ie Common Sense *IX/400).  Or maybe
C6/400...?


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Now, if it wasn't GPL'd, I'd consider putting some time on an "Open Source"
version of something like this...  Still have some reservations, but
mebbe...

For example, I'm probably done for today (after a couple short posts),
because I'm getting backlogged on work for my PAYING CLIENT...

jt