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echo: 4dos
to: Barry Block
from: Leonard Erickson
date: 1998-10-01 08:02:02
subject: timer independent of day change

-=> Quoting Barry Block to all <=-

 BB> Hello all,

 BB> For recording midifiles to MidiDisks...

 BB> I need to time 74 minutes or 148 minutes or a specified number of
 BB> minutes. 
 BB> If anyone knows how to time 74 minutes no matter when in the day the
 BB> start time happens to be I would appreciate being told how to do it.

 BB> If I start too close to 24:00 hours then the day rollover breaks my
 BB> btm. So I'm trying to use %{at}fileage.

Fileage just converts the bitmapped date/time fields in the directory
entry into an integer. So it jumps all over the place. It's *not*
suitable for timing.


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