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From: theall@rm105serve.sas.upenn.edu (George A. Theall)
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Subject: Re: need a (ASSY?) routine to record date to file @ power-up
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Date: 20 May 91 17:19:54 GMT
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In article <77189@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v087mxgb@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>I want to record the usage of a PC in a file. Is there a simple
>ASSY routine (or something) that would simply grab the date from
>the systems and append it to a file (or even overwrite a file)

   Not sure what you mean by "ASSY" but I've written a simple public
domain hack to do just this. it's available from SIMTEL20 as 
pd1:<msdos.batutl>dat13.zip. 

   Basically you add a line like "DAT -dt autoexec: booted>> \GDAL15.Log"
to your autoexec. When the machine boots, lines such as "autoexec: booted
05/17/91 17:33" are appended to the specified file. Works great for logging
program usage too.


George
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