On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 1:42 AM M. Osman Talayman wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I just can't figure this one out: From a .bat file, I want to write
> entries to a log file. Each entry should have a date and time in the
> form MMDD:HHMMSS I have searched the internet for solutions on how
> to do this,
Hi,
On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 11:44 AM Bret Johnson wrote:
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> If you're interested in learning something that will help you more in the
> "long term", you may
> want to experiment with something like SED (or AWK or ...) as a way to
> manipulate text files,
> or "whipping up" a custom executable
Hi,
On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 12:18 PM E. Auer wrote:
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>
> Hi! If you use the FreeCOM version of command.com which
> ships with FreeDOS, you could be able to use some magic
> extensions such as that option for SET which stores the
> output of a command in an environment variable
Presumably someth
Hi! If you use the FreeCOM version of command.com which
ships with FreeDOS, you could be able to use some magic
extensions such as that option for SET which stores the
output of a command in an environment variable, or some
magic pre-defined environment variables, or DATE and TIME
extensions, bu
> For a tool look at
> <https://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/#dosutils>:
> timestmp +JMD:HIS>>logfile.txt
>
> This will append, e.g., "20221223:172247" to logfile.txt.
If your only concern is this date/time thing, a utility like TIMESTMP will work
hink they are for
> cmd.exe in modern Windows which is more advanced than command.com).
As already noted by Bret you need some additional tool (or a more
capable shell).
For a tool look at
<https://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/#dosutils>:
timestmp +JMD:HIS>>logfile.txt
This wil
Back in the day I used a Norton Utilities tool to do this.
You might want to go over to ftp.icm.edu.pl and look through their huge
DOS archives to see if there is a date utility there you could use.
Another option would be to whip up a little utility with something like
QBASIC or FreeBasic.
> I just can't figure this one out: From a .bat file, I want to write
> entries to a log file. Each entry should have a date and time in the
> form MMDD:HHMMSS I have searched the internet for solutions on
> how to do this, but none of the solutions work (I think they are for
> cmd.exe in moder
On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 2:42 AM M. Osman Talayman
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just can't figure this one out: From a .bat file, I want to write
> entries to a log file. Each entry should have a date and time in the
> form MMDD:HHMMSS I have searched the internet for solutions on how
> to do this, b
