NB>> use "touch" or some similar command to change the
time stamp on one of
 NB>> them. It only has to be a minute apart, eg 10:10 and 10:11, to work
 NB>> right. 
  
 DC> I was going to ask what "touch" is, but I found the TOUCH command 
 DC> in 4DOS.  Is there a similar command in DOS?  

nope... there's not... 

 DC> This is the first time I ran into it.  Then again, it's the first 
 DC> time I needed it too!  

have you ever wondered how/why some archives and the files inside them had
the same timestamp and it matched the version number of the software? ;)

)\/(ark