Hi Gerald.

27-Oct-02 10:09:54, Gerald Miller wrote to Jasen Betts


 GM> Hello Jasen,

 JB>> what 4dos version are you targeting? the current version supports
 JB>> different formats in %{at}makedate, but not in %{at}date (strange omission)

 GM> I'm not targeting any particular 4dos version specifically, but the
 GM> version
 GM> that I'm currently using is 6.02B.  Hopefully, the newer versions will
 GM> still
 GM> perform the batch.  I have to wonder if JPSoft purposely omitted support
 GM> for
 GM> different formats in %{at}date...  To maintain backward compatibility??

They didn't break too much when they changed fron 6 to 7 :)

 GM>>> I'm not familiar with the ISO format....

 JB>>  echo
 JB>> %{at}replace[2,d,%{at}replace[20,yy,%{at}replace[1,m,%{at}makedate[14936,4]]]]
 JB>>                                                             /\
 JB>> :)                                                          ||

 GM> In your previous message, you had omitted the ",4" at the
end, but it
 GM> still
 GM> worked on my system. (???) Help me out and tell me how you achieved the
 GM> numbers
 GM> "14936,4" and what is their significance

 14963 is 22nd of November 2020

That way I can replace "20" with "YY", "1"
with "M" and "2" with "D"

the ",4" makes it use ISO format here (needs version 7 of 4dos)

Here it says comes out of makedate as 2020-11-22 which gets translated
to YYYY-MM-DD

[squiched by me]

 GM> PATH\PROGRAM TO RUN               ³AFTER³        ³        ³DAYS ³
 GM>                                   ³ DAYS³LAST RUN³NEXT RUN³ LEFT³ASK

Why all the new fields? - aren't program, After-days, last-run and ask
enough ? is it so you can add some new scheduling rules?

  -=> Bye <=-

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