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14 Feb 2008
VBScript code to beautify VBScript code

Sounds redundant, but it’s a utility function you can use when NotePad, TextPad, Context or another text editor (e.g. textarea of a browser) is used for developing the script. I’ve used this function in a web page which allows building and testing small utility functions. In that page, once the code is submitted and executed, […]

14 Feb 2008
“Touching” a file’s last-modified time stamp

The Unix world has long had utilities like “touch”, and DOS/Windows console applications exist for this: to bump the file’s last modified date/time to the current system time. In Windows 95/98, I used shdate which added a tab on a file or folder’s property which allowed changing the time stamp. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen it […]