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* Original dated Thu 22 Nov 2018 6:36a

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Is there any OS/2 experts out there???

I use an OS/2 VM, Arca Noae, and I'm using FD/2 FE/2 and Irex/2 to send and receive mail. Anyway, I have a line in an old batch file I use to run on any windows maching, or DOS machine.... BTW it still works on my windows 10 machine.

for /f "delims=" %%x in.... See it in the section beclow??

:Start

@echo off
:start
cd\Somewhere
for /f "delims=" %%x in ('date /t') do set date=%%x
del joes.asc
echo %Date% >>JOES.ASC

..... Much Much Much deleted....

goto ad

:ad
PM /I:JOES.ASC /T:All /S:BBS AD %date% /C:21
:Stop

That line captures the current date and then I can add it into my BBS ad txt file....

Anyway, is there a similar command for OS/2??

Thanx

Joe

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Hi, Joe!

22 ­®ï 18 06:38, Joe Schweier -> All:

Is there any OS/2 experts out there???

I use an OS/2 VM, Arca Noae, and I'm using FD/2 FE/2 and Irex/2 to send and receive mail. Anyway, I have a line in an old batch file I use to run on any windows maching, or DOS machine.... BTW it still works on my windows 10 machine.

for /f "delims=" %%x in.... See it in the section beclow??

:Start

@echo off
:start
cd\Somewhere
for /f "delims=" %%x in ('date /t') do set date=%%x

What do you expect from this code?

del joes.asc
echo %Date% >>JOES.ASC

It's seems to me, you may use simple code like:

date /t > JOES.ASC

BTW, %DATE% holds current date in windows environment. Try it in OS/2.

D:\Fido>echo %date%

23.11.2018

D:\Fido>date /t

23.11.2018

Have nice nights.
Brother Rabbit.

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On 11/23/18, Brother Rabbit said the following...

for /f "delims=" %%x in.... See it in the section beclow??

:Start

@echo off
:start
cd\Somewhere
for /f "delims=" %%x in ('date /t') do set date=%%x

What do you expect from this code?

del joes.asc
echo %Date% >>JOES.ASC

It's seems to me, you may use simple code like:

date /t > JOES.ASC

BTW, %DATE% holds current date in windows environment. Try it in OS/2.

D:\Fido>echo %date%

23.11.2018

D:\Fido>date /t

23.11.2018

That didn't happen... in a OS/2 or DOS session I type echo %date% and it does not echo the date... it echos %date%.

Apparently the line I have been using for years might be a little cryptic... its worked for decades so I have never thought of changing it.

I know someone who can help me with a Linux fix, the BBS runs on a Pi, and
may be done with that... I'm still doing a back and forth about just running the BBS in Windows so that I won't be asking as many stupid questions.

Thanx

IB JOE
AKA Joe Schweier
SysOp of Joe's Computer & BBS
Telnet: joesbbs.com

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It's seems to me, you may use simple code like:

date /t > JOES.ASC

SYS1036: The system cannot accept the date entered.

Enter the new date: (mm-dd-yy)

^^^^^^^----That's what I get with the above command...

Thanx
:)
Joe

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