Sean Dennis wrote to Alan Ianson:

SD> AI> I used to do this with "TYPE NULL
>>d:\bt\flags\rescan.now, or 
SD> AI> something thereabouts..
SD> 
SD> Still get that "file not found" error...

Oops, I forgot the closing quote. I used TYPE NULL >>somefile.ext
IIRC but I don't have an os2 machine handy here to try it out. I use

touch somefile.txt

on linux but I'm not sure if that would work on os2 or not.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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