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to: Bat Lang
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1999-10-20 11:02:11
subject: New DATE and TIME commands

 JdBP>> Are you saying that you want the 32-bit CMD ?  (-:

 BL> Affirmative! 

If all that you want are the new 32-bit DATE and TIME commands, by the way,
then I should point out that they (and several other commands) are pretty much 
complete already.  They can be used without having to use the 32-bit CMD
itself.  (Although I'm not going to bundle them separately, so if one wants
them one will have to obtain a pre-release version of the entire package.)

It's difficult to use them if you use IBM's 16-bit CMD, because the built-in
DATE and TIME commands get in the way.  You'll have to invoke them using their 
full pathnames.  If you are a 4OS2 user, you are luckier because you can use
SETDOS /i-DATE and SETDOS /i-TIME to disable 4OS2's built-in DATE and TIME
commands (which don't support the /N option either) and use the new ones
instead.

( One of the consequences of the design philosophy of the 32-bit CMD is that
it allows much easier "drop in" replacement of "standard" commands in
situations such as this, because it is much more modular.  So the irony is
that if you were using the 32-bit CMD already, you wouldn't have this problem
in the first place. (-: )

 ¯ JdeBP ®

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