Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!lfk From: lfk@mbio.med.upenn.edu (Lee Kolakowski) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Good date programs Message-ID: Date: 18 May 89 00:14:25 GMT References: <1163@marlin.NOSC.MIL> <10492@ihlpb.ATT.COM> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Distribution: na Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Chemistry Lines: 23 In-reply-to: santol@ihlpb.ATT.COM's message of 17 May 89 18:00:18 GMT If you need to use command.com as opposed to MKS toolkits korn shell, then you can use a rational echo and date by firing up debug and changing the strings DATE and ECHO in command.com to date and echo. DOS will then execute programs named date and echo rather than the builtins. -- Frank Kolakowski ===================================================================== |lfk@mbio.med.upenn.edu || Lee F. Kolakowski | |kolakowski@mscf.med.upenn. || Univ. of Penna. | |c/o jes@eniac.seas.upenn.edu || Dept of Chemistry | |kolakowski@c.chem.upenn.edu || 231 South 34th St. | |bcooperman.kolakowski@bionet-20.arpa || Phila, PA 19104 | |AT&T: 1-215-898-2927 ||--------------------------| |#include || One-Liner Here! | =====================================================================