From: dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de
Subject: RE: date in a backgrounf task ?
9 Dec 1997 16:47:05 -0800
Message-ID: <009BE892.85F755C0.29929.cygnus.gnu-win32@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de>
To: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de

Hi Michael, you wrote:

: I'm trying to use "date" in a batch file, which is called by an NT service
: (Legato Networker save). Whenever the date command gets started, it sits
: there doing nothing, leaving the batch file waiting forever. Only way to
: get the batch running further is to kill date.exe from taskmanager.

Maybe you have different PATH settings and got the "DOS" version first?
For that, you need something like: date<nul


Bye, Heribert (dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de)
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