Re: Date variables in Xy III -- DATE.PM Attached

[marc@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks Robert

I'm not sure who / what is MBO. My name is Marc - from a small rock in the
South Pacific called New Zealand
I haven't intentionally kept a low profile - I've just had little to say.
"Better to remain quiet and thought a fool than to open ones mouth and remove
all doubt"
I am accessing these emails thru Internet Exployter - perhaps that is why my
name is not appearing.
I have downloaded the XYWeb114 and will work thru it.
The company I used to work for use version 3.57 (we looked at version 4 and at
the time decided that the conversion would be too involved with converting the
data files as well as mostly re-writing the programs)
I am fairly conversent with version 3. (Well I thought I was...I have just had
a look at your date.pm - wow - some code there I've never seen before...nested
SaveGets etc) I have a contract with my old employer to provide support as
required (have been doing this for about 8 years now.
Thanks again for that program.
I do have one small question...why are the programs you have (as well as the
examples from XYQuest) all crammed up together.
We tend to put a couple of carriage returns after a GL and even maybe put some
commentry into these 'blank' lines. It certinally makes the program more
readable.

Thanks again for a copy of the program

Cheers

Marc


Quoting Robert Holmgren :

>
> ** Reply to message from marc@xxxxxxxx on Wed, 22 Oct 2003
> 10:49:45
> +1300 (NZDT)
>
> > how do I convert your code at the bottom of
> > this posting back into an XPL 3+ program?
>
> Use the DECODE program in XyWWWeb.U2, which operates under Xy4+ only. We
> post
> programs in this "XPLCode" format is that it is both decodable into
> executable
> XPL _and_ readily decipherable or readable by anyone conversant with
> XPL.
> Thus, if you had no other recourse, you could paste the thing into
> XyWrite and
> reconstruct it pretty easily, using search-and-replace commands --
> although
> admittedly it would be long and tedious in this instance. Do you run Xy3
> or
> Xy4?
>
> Tell you what: I'll attach it to this message as program DATE.PM (in
> DATE.ZIP).
> I'll RENUMBER it, and also put in a little preface that distinguishes
> between
> Xy3 and Xy4, by popping a 3-byte guillemet onto the CMline, and then
> determining whether its size is 1 byte [=Xy3] or 3 bytes [=Xy4]. That
> device
> will allow me to issue the proper CA CON (Xy3-style) or NE [UNTITLED]
> (Xy4)
> command. Result: you can run this in either Xy3 or Xy4. The routine is
> ridiculously longwinded overall; compare the Xy4-only frame WEEKDAY in
> U2
> (fundamentally the same math, but much more economically expressed).
>
> And you are... I'll hazard MBO -- right? Good guess? Why the low
> profile?
>
> -----------------------------
> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
> -----------------------------
>
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