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Re: CAL "command" for DOS/Win?

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From: Ralph
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 00:27
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Will an html page suffice?
I have something if so.

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Phred wrote in message <2mhs5mFn2meoU1@uni-berlin.de>...
>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.
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>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>
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>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.  :-)
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>>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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From: "Ralph" <Ralph.Smith2@team4.telstra6.com>
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Subject: Re: CAL "command" for DOS/Win?
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