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

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Quoting Brian Stansberry <brian.stansberry at redhat.com>:

> 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

I'm on Windows 7.  To create a new dodeploy I use:

echo > foo.war.dodeploy

The type command above seems to work OK for touch, but copy will  
modify the file, which you don't want.

>
> 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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