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by jackdied 6646 days ago
And that reminds me of my CS professors who used file timestamps to determine if you submitted by midnight. The TAs were the ones who checked the assignments and they got around to it .. eventually. Clever man that he was the prof gimped the "touch" binary on that system to accept no arguments. Sadly for him Stevens includes source for a simple touch program in "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment"