On 13 Jul 96 Steve Batson said to All...
 SB> done much with Dates in pascal. The BBS software is an older DOS based
 SB> system written in pascal and I have the record structure provided by
 SB> the author. I am able to read several of the other fields ok and the
 SB> date value is pulled in ok, just can't decode the sucker!
Can you define the field as Char(8) and then use "move" to transfer the
contents into a LongInt ?  The format might be that of a DOS file's
timestamp, which can be decoded with the Pascal UnpackTime procedure.
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