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Subject: Re: date.exe in shl2011b.zip
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Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 04:20:57 GMT
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DJ Delorie wrote:
>>Now I have a question about date.exe in shl2011b.zip. why date.exe
>>work the same as msdos's built-in date.exe? I thought date.exe
>>from shl2011b.zip should work the same as binary date in unix.
> 
> 
> It's likely that you are still running the MS-DOS builtin date.
> 
> Try ".\date" or run bash first.


under msdos
C:\>c:\fsf\bin\date.exe
Current date is Thu 09/02/2004
Enter new date (mm-dd-yy):


Under bash:
bash-2.05b$ c:/fsf/bin/date.exe
Thu Sep  2 21:22:48  2004
bash-2.05b$

not sure what is magic here?

Thanks.