Reply to note from Bill Troop Sun, 21 Dec 2014
10:09:31 +0000
Bill,
> Just a note on XyWrite's 'now' comand. I had got out of the
> habit of using it (though it is very useful to me) because,
> ever since XP, and on through all the VMs, 'now' would not give
> the right time unless you first shelled out to DOS and invoked
> the date command, which would momentarily reset XyWrite's idea
> of time.
How strange. I have never experienced this -- at least, not
consistently -- in any non-pure-DOS environment, from NT through
vDosXy. The only minor annoyance I've seen started with XP, where
the time displayed on the PRompt line would (very occasionally) get
"stuck". The fix was indeed to shell to DOS and issue the DOS TIME/T
command. I wrote frames that automated this process: TIMERF to
refresh the time, and NOW and TM to do the same before issuing NOW
(hard time) and TM (soft time) commands.
Good to know that the issue has become moot under vDosXy.
--
Carl Distefano
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