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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Good date programs
Message-ID: <405.2471CB81@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 17 May 89 19:32:28 GMT
References: <24501@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us
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In article <24501@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
 >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.

Maybe the set of PiCnix utilities?  Their cost is zero, and (although they
don't include the "heavyweight" program like vi or ksh), they do include
versions of grep, ls, rm, touch, mv, etc.  They also include "ndate" (can't
be called "date" because of name conflicts with DOS), which is just like
the Unix version of "date".

You could also write a short C program to do this.  (Disclaimer: This
should work with Turbo C.  Although the Turbo C Bible says that all
the functions used are compatable with MSC, QuickC, Unix SysV C, and ANSI
C, your milage may vary.)

#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>

void main(void);
void main()
{
        printf("%s\n",ctime(time((time_t *) NULL)));
}

This simply prints the date and time in the form

        Wed May 17 15:39:36 1989

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