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Re: CAL "command" for DOS/Win?

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From: John Smith
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:04
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In aus.computers Phred <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In article <newscache$dfdg1i$fub$1@bell.nelsonbay.com>, Noemail@noemail.com (John Smith) wrote:
>>In aus.computers Phred <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> In article <d361e386.0407250431.68011f7a@posting.google.com>, 
>>> posts@subdimension.com (Joe P) wrote:
>>>>Perhaps the cal.exe program Ben Ritchey has listed on his website at
>>>>http://cmech.port5.com/ is what you are looking for.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your interest, Joe, but I'm afraid cal.exe is a bit 
>>> limited for what I want.
>>> <quoting http://cmech.port5.com/>
>>> Cal.Exe will display a small but concise Calendar of the current month 
>>> with today hilighted
>>> </quoting>
>>> 
>>> I was actually looking at something for past/future dates etc.  
>>> Initially came about due to discussion of the *day* various events 
>>> occurred in the past rather than just the date that you're taught at 
>>> school.  :-)
>>
>>The windows one I have used is 'tclockex'
>>Visit the TClockEx home page at:
>>http://users.iafrica.com/d/da/dalen
> 
> Thanks for your interest, mate, but this one seems to just give you 
> current time and date. As indicated above, not really what I'm after.
> 

I can tell why you like the unix one now.
I thought tclockex was rather easy to use, and you would surely
click on the box to see the calender pop up, with scroll bars.
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