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From: stevek@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Steve_Kite)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DOS batch quirks and environment variable weirdness.
Message-ID: <1400056@hp-ptp.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Oct 90 13:56:36 GMT
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You're evidently not familiar with 4DOS, a command.com replacement.
It allows you to read the date and/or time and set them up as
enviornment variables.  This way they are accessible from any
program.

It also lets you parse out any part of the string that you want.
My autoexec.bat file reads the date, parses out the day, and
sets the prompt accordingly, so I can have a different prompt 
for each day of the week.  It also takes the date, parses
out the year, figures out which anniversary, etc. it is, and
reminds me of it.

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~  dark moon sings, how many grains on sand in a single one of  ~
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~  steve kite     -   hp-ptp!stevek   -   stevek@hp-ptp.HP.COM  ~
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