...and if you're a windowz fanatic, you still have hope. You can
download a copy of touch from:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Services/TechNet/samples/ps/win98/Reskit/FILE/

(TOUCH.EXE, is what you're looking for)

or you could simply install Cygwin, the greatest unix emulator on the
face of this planet! (Sorry, couldn't resist)

Yiannis Mavroukakis wrote:

>The touch command is on Unix OS'es. It hasn't got anything to do with
>tomcat. What it does is it updates (among other things) the last modified
>attribute
>of a file, but in your case the purpose is (at least if my head is screwed
>on right)
>to trigger Tomcat into detecting a file change in the work directory, hence
>doing a reload.
>If I got the Tomcat bit wrong, shoot at the bright red target on my
>forehead :)
>
>Yiannis.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Daly [mailto:C.daly@(protected)]
>Sent: 10 February 2004 14:50
>To: Tomcat Users List
>Subject: Re: include files
>
>
>thanks.
>
>do i delete the name of the app under tomcat, for example
>work/Standalone/localhost/Website ? and all the $... files and the two
>directories - Help and WEB-INF under this directory ?
>
>what is the touch cmd ? i cant find it in my wrox tomcat book ?
>
>cheers
>
>chris
>
>
<snip>

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