Hallo Joe!

22.11.2018 06:36, Joe Schweier schrieb an All:

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??

Sure. It's called date. I use plain os/2 rexx for similar things.

Usually all plain dos-batches should work on OS/2 too. If not, you can try another shell called 4os2 similar to 4dos or use one of the available shells ported from unix/linux, like sh/ash or bash.

Thanx
Joe

Bye/2 Torsten

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Hallo Joe!

22.11.2018 06:36, Joe Schweier schrieb an All:

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??

Sure. It's called date. I use plain os/2 rexx for similar
things.

Usually all plain dos-batches should work on OS/2 too. If
not, you can try another shell called 4os2 similar to
4dos or use one of the available shells ported from
unix/linux, like sh/ash or bash.

Didn't work... Thanx though.... I'll just look at a Windows solution... Linux if I'm pressed.

Thanx
Joe

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Hallo Joe!

23.11.2018 11:32, Joe Schweier schrieb an Torsten Bamberg:

[date on os/2]

Didn't work...

Well, seems to be, arcanoa changed something there. On ecomstation 2.2 date.exe
depends on gnu-date. Underneath is the current helpfile of my date.exe

=##= Anfang "dateh.txt" =##=
Usage: C:\ecs\KLIBC\bin\date.exe [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
or: C:\ecs\KLIBC\bin\date.exe [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]] Display the current time in the given FORMAT, or set the system date.

-d, --date=STRING display time described by STRING, not `now'
-f, --file=DATEFILE like --date once for each line of DATEFILE
-r, --reference=FILE display the last modification time of FILE
-R, --rfc-2822 output date and time in RFC 2822 format
--rfc-3339=TIMESPEC output date and time in RFC 3339 format.
TIMESPEC=`date', `seconds', or `ns' for
date and time to the indicated precision.
-s, --set=STRING set time described by STRING
-u, --utc, --universal print or set Coordinated Universal Time
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit

FORMAT controls the output. The only valid option for the second form specifies Coordinated Universal Time. Interpreted sequences are:

%% a literal %
%a locale's abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun)
%A locale's full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)
%b locale's abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan)
%B locale's full month name (e.g., January)
%c locale's date and time (e.g., Thu Mar 3 23:05:25 2005)
%C century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 21)
%d day of month (e.g, 01)
%D date; same as %m/%d/%y
%e day of month, space padded; same as %_d
%F full date; same as %Y-%m-%d
%g last two digits of year of ISO week number (see %G)
%G year of ISO week number (see %V); normally useful only with %V
%h same as %b
%H hour (00..23)
%I hour (01..12)
%j day of year (001..366)
%k hour ( 0..23)
%l hour ( 1..12)
%m month (01..12)
%M minute (00..59)
%n a newline
%N nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)
%p locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known
%P like %p, but lower case
%r locale's 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM)
%R 24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M
%s seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
%S second (00..60)
%t a tab
%T time; same as %H:%M:%S
%u day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday
%U week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)
%V ISO week number, with Monday as first day of week (01..53)
%w day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday
%W week number of year, with Monday as first day of week (00..53)
%x locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99)
%X locale's time representation (e.g., 23:13:48)
%y last two digits of year (00..99)
%Y year
%z +hhmm numeric timezone (e.g., -0400)
%:z +hh:mm numeric timezone (e.g., -04:00)
%::z +hh:mm:ss numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00:00)
%:::z numeric time zone with : to necessary precision (e.g., -04, +05:30)
%Z alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT)

By default, date pads numeric fields with zeroes.
The following optional flags may follow `%':

- (hyphen) do not pad the field
_ (underscore) pad with spaces
0 (zero) pad with zeros
^ use upper case if possible
# use opposite case if possible

After any flags comes an optional field width, as a decimal number;
then an optional modifier, which is either
E to use the locale's alternate representations if available, or
O to use the locale's alternate numeric symbols if available.

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
=##= Ende "dateh.txt" =##=

Thanx though.... I'll just look at a Windows solution... Linux if I'm pressed.

Ah, okay.

btw...if you are interested, os/2 rexx is a very powerfull batch language.

Thanx
Joe

Bye/2 Torsten

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On 2018 Nov 22 06:36:04, you wrote to All:

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

4DOS for the DOS side and 4OS2 for the OS2 side... seriously... you won't have to use weird constructs like that any more... these make bat scripting almost as capable as bash scripting on *nix... i don't even use daynbr because these have things like that built in as variables or functions...

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That was more than I was looking for... Looking through it... I don't do OS/2 much... used it in the mid 90's bought it to play with it... I have some BBS software that is OS/2 and I'm playing with it.

I'll just ask one more time... do you know the commandline needed to echo the current darte into an asc or TXT file??

Because the one I used for windows and or DOS doesn't work.

Thanx

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Sunday November 25 2018 10:14, Joe Schweier wrote to Torsten Bamberg:

That was more than I was looking for... Looking through it... I don't do OS/2 much... used it in the mid 90's bought it to play with it... I have some BBS software that is OS/2 and I'm playing with it.

I'll just ask one more time... do you know the commandline needed to echo the current darte into an asc or TXT file??

Because the one I used for windows and or DOS doesn't work.

I strongly recommend 4os2.

=== Begin OS/2 Clipboard ===

[c:\]echo %_date %_time
25.11.18 20.50.08

[c:\]ver/r

4OS2 3.08.4-shl OS/2 Version is 4,50
Build 3.08.4-shl.168 (Feb 18 2018 16:09:35)
Copyright (c) 1988-2002 JP Software, Inc -- http://jpsoft.com/
Netlabs Edition http://4os2.netlabs.org/ -- not supported by JP Software, Inc. Built with Open Watcom C/C++ -- http://www.openwatcom.org/

=== End OS/2 Clipboard ===

'Tommi

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Hallo Joe!

25.11.2018 10:14, Joe Schweier schrieb an Torsten Bamberg:

That was more than I was looking for... Looking through it... I don't
do OS/2 much... used it in the mid 90's bought it to play with it... I have some BBS software that is OS/2 and I'm playing with it.

Well, the date.exe command on arcaos/ecomstation is very special.

I'll just ask one more time... do you know the commandline needed to
echo the current darte into an asc or TXT file??

It works in two easy ways:
1.)
c:\Foo\klibc\bin\date -u >> joes.asc

the path to date.exe must be used. Otherwise date wont work properly. Seems to be a big bug.

the second way is like this:

=##= Anfang "date_.cmd" =##= /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ /* date_.cmd */ /* Rexx for typical date */ /* 25.11.2018 Torsten Bamberg */ /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ call RxFuncAdd 'SysSleep', 'RexxUtil', 'SysSleep'

datestring=date('N')

foo_out = joes.asc

echo' 'datestring' >> 'foo_out

exit(0)
=##= Ende "date_.cmd" =##=


This rexx script creates or appends a 11/25/18 in a textfile named joes.asc

Because the one I used for windows and or DOS doesn't work.

I know this now. the date-command is a bit tricky and buggy.

Thanx

You are welcome.

Joe

Bye/2 Torsten

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Hello Torsten,

25 Nov 18 21:00 at you wrote to Joe Schweier:

Well, the date.exe command on arcaos/ecomstation is very special.

The "date" command in the 16-bit CMD.EXE in OS/2 can't display the date only but has a prompt to change the date. The date command in eCS/ArcaOS is based on the GNU 'date' command which will do what Joe's wanting. Or, instead of screwing around with batch commands, run a single REXX command which will do what he wants. One of the best parts of OS/2 is REXX. :)

Later,
Sean

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