Hi mark -- on Aug 27 2012 at 23:16, you wrote:

 DH> Thanks, Mark -- no, it has to be Windows 32/64 bit.

ml> hummm... may i ask why? a limitation of the OS' console operations?
ml> i don't know how far 4DOS/4OS2/4NT has gone but there may be a 32bit
ml> build of them...


It's what I run on my desktop. Simple!


ml> ahhh... other than a simple DOY tool? ;)

If we change to something other than daynbr, then several batch files will
have to be rewritten -- rather a pain!

ml> drawback is that daynbr is a shell program... by that i'm meaning
ml> that it does the doy calcs and formatting on the {at}### items found on
ml> the command line and then it shells out to another console to do the
ml> actual work and feeds that math {at}### calculation to the shelled task
ml> in the same manner that i was thinking of just setting an
ml> environment variable to the needed doy variable...

There's several routines for getting that number, but as I say, a complete
rewrite of the existing batch files.

ml> i hope that makes sense and may also offer some assistance to the
ml> task you are looking at...

ml> FWIW: everything, other than the new coding of an app for this, is
ml> all 16bit stuff... everything in BATPOWER that might help you seems
ml> to be but it is possible that i've overlooked something...

That's the other possibility - batch files work, and maybe I can write a
daynbr.bat to take the equivalent parameters.


Cheers... Dallas

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