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echo: 4dos
to: Leonard Erickson
from: Laurent Jumet
date: 1998-12-23 11:14:16
subject: Re: Power On Since...

Hello Leonard!

Monday December 21 1998 19:58, Leonard Erickson wrote to Laurent Jumet:

LJ>> How could I access the feature "Power On since xxxxx",
using 4dos
LJ>> or by another way? Purpose is to pass a different command, whether
LJ>> PC is ON since a few minutes, or ON since hours/days.

LE> I don't think that's stored anyplace 4dos can access easily.

LE> What you *might* be able to do is have AUTOEXEC.BAT check for a file,
LE> then if it exists, rename it and create a new one. Then you compare the
LE> timestamp on the two files.
    Not exactly, because in this case, you cannot make the difference
between a warm or cold boot, and a power-On.
    There is a place in the memory, that stores it; some programs access it
easily, so I thought I could access it too...:-)

Laurent Jumet

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