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Re: CAL "command" for DOS/Win?

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From: Phred
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.

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