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Article #459Re: CAL "command" for DOS/Win?
From: Phred
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:50
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:50
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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. :-) >ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com (Phred) wrote in message > news:<2mff28Fmgad1U3@uni-berlin.de>... >> ISTR that Unix has a "cal" command that will do things like print out >> a calendar for a given month/year, tell you the day of a given date, >> and similar essential or trivial detail (depending on your needs). >> >> So the question is, is such a thing available for DOS/Windows? >> >> A command line implementation would be neat; but a more elaborate >> creation would not be rejected if it's capable and accurate and does >> things nicely. (CL output does tend to be rather crude at best. :) Cheers, Phred. -- ppnerkDELETE@THISyahoo.com.INVALID
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