Personally, I use the "touch" command all the time. It's good for creating 
files, among other things.
 
BW
 
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From: "John Campbell" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 6:43pm
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: touchscreen wasteland



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On Wed, 17 Dec 2014, Anthony Carrico wrote:

> 8. Typing "touch" into their just-type-to-search start menu gives me a
> "Run touch" option, but it doesn't seem to do anything. That might not
> even be a kde application, not sure what they are searching?

 It's probably searching your $PATH and finding the "touch"
command-line tool, which is ancient and has nothing to do with touchscreens.
It updates the timestamps on a given file. "man touch" for more details.

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John Campbell
[email protected]

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