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From: Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSW DOT Invalid>
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Subject: Re: date.exe in shl2011b.zip
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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. 

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Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis 	Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Brian DOT Inglis AT CSi DOT com 	(Brian[dot]Inglis{at}SystematicSW[dot]ab[dot]ca)
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