Subj : CMDTIME
To   : Bob Swift
From : Robert Bull
Date : Sun Apr 27 2003 03:21 pm

Hello, Bob;

20 Apr 03 18:29, Bob Swift wrote to Robert Bull:

 BS> That's because DOS is confused and doesn't know what error message to
 BS> display. The problem is that you're trying to rename the file to a
 BS> name which includes a colon.  That's still an absolute no-no under
 BS> DOS.

In the immortal words of Charlie Brown:  Aaauuuggghhh!

I should have worked that out  :-(  Thanks for putting me straight...

 BS> And worked because it was displaying to the screen, not renaming with
 BS> an included colon.

OK, that makes sense.

 RB>> Also noticed the following behaviour WRT quote marks;

 BS> I actually found that really interesting, and can (sort of) explain
 BS> it.  When the original parameters are passed to CMDTIME, DOS will

A bit over my head, but I sort-of see what's happening.

 BS> of the user's control.  For this reason, I've added two more
 BS> substitution options for single- and double-quotes.  The new version
 BS> is available at http://www.rsds.ca/misc.html.

OK, many thanks.  Will pick it up and check ASAP.  Paul Quinn in BATPOWER 
reports oddities, including with/without TZ set, but I had it set anyway 
(for Info-Zip) so haven't had any problems.

     Regards,

              Robert.

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