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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Good date programs
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Date: 17 May 89 01:52:40 GMT
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In article <392@nbires.nbi.com> maa@nbires.UUCP (Mark Armbrust) writes:
>In article <1163@marlin.NOSC.MIL> jbjones@marlin.nosc.mil.UUCP (John B. Jones) writes:
>>I need a nice date program which I can use at the command line, which
>>won't expect a return or prompt me for a change, and which displays the
>>date and the day of the week.  The output will probably look like this:
>
>If you are using CED you can make a clever alias (or put it in a batch file if
>you are not):

Any even better idea is to buy the Mortice Kern System Toolkit.  This gives
you a **IX like date with output that you can format to your heart's content.
The MKS Toolkit also gives you lots of other goodies like the korn shell,
a more that is useful, a complete version of vi, etc., etc.  I can't think
of any piece of MSDOS software that his a higher utility/price ratio than
MKS.

Disclaimer: Not only do I have no relation to MKS, the copy I have was
purchased out of pocket.  Once I saw what it could do, I coudn't wait
for the requisition to go through the University bureaucracy.

Earl H. Kinmonth
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