-=> Quoting T.J. Mcmillen to Renato Zambon <=-

 RZ> echo >> fdfreeze.all

 TM> Yeah, XP doesn't do that command anymore.  Had to make the fake "blank
 TM> file"  to still do that.

Have you tried 

rem>fdfrozen.all

This has made *zero* byte files since the early days of DOS. Be sure to
not have spaces around the > or it won't work right.

if it doesn't work in XP, then MS has *really* given up on "DOS". 

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