Subj : Daynbr
To   : mark lewis
From : Dallas Hinton
Date : Mon Aug 27 2012 02:10 pm

Hi mark -- on Aug 27 2012 at 15:50, you wrote:

ml> i have never seen sources for the dos daynbr tool... however, it
ml> isn't really needed if you have something (ie: 4DOS/4OS2/4NT) that
ml> can generate the dayofyear number... some folks mistakenly call this
ml> the julian day number...

Thanks, Mark -- no, it has to be Windows 32/64 bit.

ml> in any case, the best thing i like about daynbr is that it is easy
ml> to denote the number @### and doesn't require something like %_DOY%
ml> which really isn't all that bad... another positive is that it can
ml> do some rudimentary math on the doy number, too... i have, somewhere
ml> around here, replicated most all of this in 4DOS bat/btm files but i
ml> haven't seen it in a very long time... might be easier to just write
ml> a replacement from scratch :?

It may be - my programmer friend was hoping for a starting point. :-)

ml> speaking of writing from scratch, if you do pascal, then you might
ml> want to look at FPC (FreePasCal) which is cross-platform and
ml> multi-bits... i'm pretty sure they have some library code that can
ml> (easily?) handle this and even the maths stuffs :)


Thanks kindly!


Cheers... Dallas

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