Path: utzoo!utgpu!lsuc!ncrcan!brian
From: brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian Onn)
Newsgroups: tor.news
Subject: Re: Long message IDs (was Re: attcan't?)
Message-ID: <1400@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM>
Date: 14 May 89 02:55:34 GMT
References: <1394@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM> <610787517.10071@ontmoh.UUCP> <1396@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM> <1989May13.144700.3912@eci386.uucp>
Reply-To: brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian Onn)
Organization: NCR Canada Ltd., Mississauga, Ontario
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In article <1989May13.144700.3912@eci386.uucp>
				woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes:
>In article <1396@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM> I said:
>> Yeah, I mean like that.  Ok, so it's possible to do this with date and expr
>> too, using the perfect example of an expr contortion above :-)  But this 
>> still may not be OK in a general purpose News distribution, as all 
>> implementations of date(1) do not support the format string concept.
>
>Ah ha!  But there's at least one "free" version of date(1) that
>does support the SysV format strings.  I believe it was packaged
>with the recent timezone/ctime stuff.

Sigh.  I'll just sit back here an shut up :-)

Brian.
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