Re: TODAY

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Harry Binswanger wrote:
In an XPL program, I change the mask for the date, using, for example
VA$DAm to get the month number. Then I want to reset the default mask for
use with TODAY. I do this using

Does one have to? Reset the mask, I mean.
I did. I found that unless I exited Xy and re-launched it, it used the last
mask it had.
 I have a couple of routines I use to create, call, or both, files named
for various combinations of month, day, and year. Running them does not
affect the system date mask. I haven't had occasion to see if it does
within the program.
For example, this is the frame I use to create a file for the month's
posts from this list, if it doesn't already exist, and to call it once it
does, the file being named YYMMM.txt:

{{5,xylist}} PMG 4/24/06
>>>+>mkdir e:XC >.txt XC >BC cd e:\xyinfoXC BX exist
Q2 >BC cd e:XC BX exist e:.txtQ2
>BC ca e:.txtXC BF
After running that, TODAY issued from the command line generates September
13, 2006, which is in my default format.
Strange. My program must have done something different. Probably I reset
the default before issuing the TODAY command--an especially dumb idea,
since I could have simply commanded TODAY yyyy or whatever.



Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx