Date:         Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:26:34 -0700
Reply-To:     kmself@IX.NETCOM.COM
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From:         kmself@IX.NETCOM.COM
Subject:      Re: UltraEdit: from the proverbial horse's mouth
Comments: To: "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@ibm.net>
In-Reply-To:  <no.id>; from wwvierg@IBM.NET on Wed, Jun 28,
              2000 at 12:23:45PM -0700
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    man touch

...that is, look up the command "touch", in the Linux online manual.
Anything Bill and I have going on the side is completely independent of
this ;-P

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 12:23:45PM -0700, William W. Viergever wrote:
> Here Here!
>
> Although I used XReplace-32 and not UltraEdit (was globally changing SYSDAT to SYSDAT9 in my standard footnote code in all SAS jobs) it went flawlessly.
>
> The only downside was that it also changed all the "dates" of these files, such that if I want to see when I ran something I have to check the .LST/.LST instead of the .SAS files.
>
> I presume UltraEdit would change the file dates as well.
>
>
>
> At 09:34 AM 06/28/2000, Richard Read Allen wrote:
> >This whole thread is another very good argument for keeping your program
> >files and data files in separate directories. That's the simplest and best
> >way to avoid the pitfalls described below and not a bad standard practice
> >to follow.
> >
> >Richard

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