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    From Dallas Hinton@1:153/715 to All on Sat Feb 7 15:23:15 2015
    Hi All!

    I've just hatched DayNbr32.zip - this is a bugfix for the original Daynbr32, which is a 32bit replacement for Ben Baker's original Daynbr utility.



    Cheers... Dallas

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  • From Vince Coen@2:250/1 to Dallas Hinton on Sun Feb 8 15:45:39 2015
    Hello Dallas!

    Saturday February 07 2015 15:23, you wrote to All:

    Hi All!

    I've just hatched DayNbr32.zip - this is a bugfix for the original
    Daynbr32, which is a 32bit replacement for Ben Baker's original Daynbr utility.


    Two questions :

    Is there a 64 bit version and is the sources available.
    What is it used for within a BBS environment.


    Vince

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  • From Dallas Hinton@1:153/715 to Vince Coen on Sun Feb 8 16:51:23 2015
    Hi Vince -- on Feb 08 2015 at 15:45, you wrote:

    Two questions :

    Is there a 64 bit version and is the sources available.

    I don't believe it's a specifically 64 bit, but runs perfectly in that OS. Source is included in the archive.

    What is it used for within a BBS environment.

    Mainly for (re)naming nodelists and/or log files. Examples are included in the original Ben Baker docs. It can be quite useful, although I don't use it myself.


    Cheers... Dallas

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  • From Vince Coen@2:250/1 to Dallas Hinton on Mon Feb 9 18:19:27 2015
    Hello Dallas!

    Sunday February 08 2015 16:51, you wrote to me:

    Two questions :

    Is there a 64 bit version and is the sources available.

    I don't believe it's a specifically 64 bit, but runs perfectly in that
    OS. Source is included in the archive.

    What is it used for within a BBS environment.

    Mainly for (re)naming nodelists and/or log files. Examples are
    included in the original Ben Baker docs. It can be quite useful,
    although I don't use it myself.

    Thanks for the info, looks like I do not have a need for it as those functions I do within a bash script.



    Vince

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Vince Coen on Mon Feb 9 14:41:30 2015

    On Sun, 08 Feb 2015, Vince Coen wrote to Dallas Hinton:

    What is it used for within a BBS environment.

    it is simply an external tool to determine the day of the year number (mistakenly called julian day by many)... it executes a shelled command and can
    pass that DoY number to the shell as a parameter... it may be formatted according to a template (@###, @##), too... you can also give it certain things
    like "last friday" or "this coming friday" and it will give you the DoY number for that day...

    that's what i remember from the original which i haven't used in a very long time since switching over to using my command processor's built-in date routines of which one is the DoY number... that and a little math based on the current DoW (Day of Week) number make it easy to figure out the DoY for this coming friday or last friday or pretty much any day of the year ;)

    )\/(ark


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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to mark lewis on Mon Feb 9 20:06:46 2015
    Hello, mark.

    Monday February 09 2015 at 14:41, you wrote to Vince Coen:

    that's what i remember from the original which i haven't used in a

    I do believe REXX has the same function in "day(d)" if memory serves. I know in bash it's part of the date function.

    Later,
    Sean

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  • From Dallas Hinton@1:153/715 to Vince Coen on Mon Feb 9 20:24:40 2015
    Hi Vince -- on Feb 09 2015 at 18:19, you wrote:

    Thanks for the info, looks like I do not have a need for it as those functions I do within a bash script.

    Good stuff!


    Cheers... Dallas

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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Sean Dennis on Tue Feb 10 08:34:55 2015
    Hi Sean,

    On 2015-02-09 20:06:46, you wrote to mark lewis:

    I know in bash it's part of the date function.

    # date +"%j"
    041

    ;)

    Bye, Wilfred.

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Wilfred van Velzen on Tue Feb 10 09:21:29 2015

    On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Sean Dennis:

    I know in bash it's part of the date function.

    # date +"%j"
    041

    how to you get it with only 2 digits if you want to use it as an archive extension al la foo.z41...

    )\/(ark


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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to mark lewis on Tue Feb 10 15:51:40 2015
    Hi mark,

    On 2015-02-10 09:21:29, you wrote to me:

    I know in bash it's part of the date function.

    # date +"%j"
    041

    how to you get it with only 2 digits if you want to use it as an archive extension al la foo.z41...

    My AmigaNet nodelist hatch script does something like:

    NEXTFRIDAYNR=$(date --date=friday +"%j")
    echo Hatching AmyList for day number: ${NEXTFRIDAYNR}
    htick hatch .../AmyList.l${NEXTFRIDAYNR:1} ...


    Bye, Wilfred.

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