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From: | Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSW DOT Invalid> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: date.exe in shl2011b.zip |
Organization: | Systematic Software |
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Date: | Fri, 03 Sep 2004 05:31:04 GMT |
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On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 04:20:57 GMT in comp.os.msdos.djgpp, "one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com" <one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com> wrote: >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? MS-DOS command.com date is an internal command so it is matched in command's internal command table if no explicit path prefix is given; for internal commands, there is no way to get command to search the path. OTOH bash has no internal date command (unless you add one using a function definition or define an alias for date) so it has to search the path for a date program. -- Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada Brian DOT Inglis AT CSi DOT com (Brian[dot]Inglis{at}SystematicSW[dot]ab[dot]ca) fake address use address above to reply
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