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Article #461Re: CAL "command" for DOS/Win?
From: John Smith
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:37
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:37
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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 > >>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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