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Re: CAL "command" for DOS/Win?

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From: Andrew H. Carter (Applied ROT 17...
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:05
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On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:36:31 GMT, ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com
(Phred) wrote:

>Troppo?  You sound like a house master we had at boarding school 50 
>years ago!  :-)
>
>Anyway, thanks for this pointer.  It sounds rather like cal40.zip 
>which was coincidentally mentioned in another group I saw this evening 
>(see my response "Re: print monthly calendar ..." cross-posted here) 
>which looks like the bee's knees too, if not the duck's nuts.  But not 
>sure if cal40 also does that piping thing, though it wouldn't be 
>unusual to find it will.
>
>I must say that it's a pleasure to find a 3622 byte program (cal.com 
>in that cal_gb.zip you mentioned below) that does something useful in 
>this day and age.  (Mind you, it dates from 1989, so don't know if it 
>will be well behaved under WinXP until I try.)
>


If you are looking for a program which can return a
date/period of time from one date to another then XSET can
do that.  You can even generate a form letter if you wanted.

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