Re: Mutt, unnoticed new mail and improper access/change times

[David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk>]

Quoting Carel Fellinger (cfelling@iae.nl):> 
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:42:47PM +0000, David Wright wrote:... 
> > Thanks - I've had to modify it slightly for a Sun because touch isn't
> > so clever, and it becomes either

> wonder what happens of you go to far west and hit the date border:)

Yes, also the time is too far into the future, it seems; so I've come
up with the following which seems to work, and should avoid the 2 sec
locking time:

{
    :0:
    | cat >>$BOX
    :0
    | sleep 2 && touch -m $BOX
}

Cheers,

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