[jboss-as7-dev] Deployment -- why marker files?

[Brian Stansberry]

Thanks; this discussion got me motivated to fire up my old Winx XP 
laptop and figure out how to do 'touch'. I wanted to add 
Windows-variants to that README.

COPY /B foo.war.dodeploy+,, doesn't seem to work, but either of these did:

type nul >> foo.war.dodeploy
copy nul >> foo.war.dodeploy

If anyone has a Win 7 machine and can confirm either of those still 
work, that would be great.

On 4/12/11 12:01 PM, Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
> There is so standard 'touch' on windows. You have to use tricks from the command line like:
> COPY /B myfile+,,
>
> Normal windows users would probably right-click to create a new text file and then click to
> manually rename it. Or open in an editor an existing one and save it in order to achieve the
> 'touch' effect.
>
> It's a bit of a pain for them.
>
> On 12/04/2011 19:41, Jim Tyrrell wrote:
>>> If you have some ideas how we can make it more clear thats great. One thing I realize is that Windows folks have no idea what touch is so I know we need to improve it at least there.
>>
>> Does touch even exist on windows?  Been a long time since I used it.
>
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Brian Stansberry
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