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Re: a peculiar date bug in DOSbox

Carl a hundred thanks for explaining to me that I was using the jumbo version of TODAY. What a blessed thing it is. Thanks again and eternally to you and Robert for U2. 
It's been so long since I've thought about it that I actually forgot 
all about it and I don't even know what my hotkey is. I will have to 
start re-exploring the world of U2.

Just think, some people will probably be using this for as long as 
conceivable, since progress in word processing has largely been 
backwards the last 30 years.


At 1/27/2022 12:53 AM, you wrote:
Reply to note from Bill Troop <billtroop@xxxxxxxxx> Wed, 26 Jan 2022
23:54:26 +0000

Bill,

> Generally, I invoke the TODAY command this way from a keyboard
> file:
>
> 20=NO,JM,2,.,t,o,d,a,y,Q2
>
> I now no longer understand what NO JM 2 . is for

I can't imagine what's going on with DOSBox-X, wake-up and the date,
but hopefully Wengier will see your query and respond.

With regard to "TODAY", I just wanted to clarify that there are two
such entities: the native command TODAY, which puts down a hard date,
and the U2 command TODAY, which puts down the day of the week in
addition to the date. On the command line, TODAY<F9> (or whatever key
you use to execute native commands) executes the former, and
TODAY<Helpkey> the latter. In XPL, the native command is BX todayQ2 ,
and the U2 command is JM 2.todayQ2 . In the keyboard file, these
translate to:

nn=BX,t,o,d,a,y,Q2

and

nn=JM,2,.,t,o,d,a,y,Q2
or
nn=NO,JM,2,.,t,o,d,a,y,Q2

("NO" is optional -- strongly recommended if you use the STACK command-
history routine and otherwise benign.)

I hope this helps.

--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxxxx