RE: Date variables in Xy III

["Ambos, Paul" PAMBOS@xxxxxxxx]

The only solution I have found is to automate the "today" command via a
short program to insert a hard date. But it works in all versions of
XyWrite.

I've never toyed with the formatting, but the manual indicates that you can
control the formatting through command arguments in XY4 and XyW but in Xy3
you have to specify the DA formatting in the printer file.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Paul Ambos
pambos@xxxxxxxx



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Patricia M Godfrey [SMTP:pmgodfrey@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Monday, October 20, 2003 11:49 AM
> To:	xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Date variables in Xy III
>
> Is there any way to get a text date in Xy III (i.e., not the ≪DA≫ code
> but the plain ASCII numbers of a date) in a purely numeric format (e.g.,
> 20031020)? XyIII won't save a date with SX; one gets "command entry
> error." I've tried putting it in quotes, à la Carl's very, very helpful
> examples--thanks, Carl; clearest discussion of this topic I've seen--,
> saving it twice with ≪SV01≪DAyyyymmdd≫≪SV02,≪IS01≫≫, even loading
> a printer file with a DF DA=yyyymmdd and then issuing Today. Nothing
> works. I suppose one could use ≪IS01≫ and then typef, but one of the
> reasons I'm trying to do this in XyIII is so I WON"T have to typef, but
> can store the resultant file (in Xy 4, of course, stored files have that
> dratted LOG code at the end, so they won't work as batch files, which is
> what I want).
> Patricia