Quoting Carel Fellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):>
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:42:47PM +0000, David Wright wrote:...
> > Thanks - I've had to modify it slightly for a Sun because touch isn't
> > so clever, and it becomes either
> wonder what happens of you go to far west and hit the date border:)
Yes, also the time is too far into the future, it seems; so I've come
up with the following which seems to work, and should avoid the 2 sec
locking time:
{
:0:
| cat >>$BOX
:0
| sleep 2 && touch -m $BOX
}
Cheers,
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