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   Kerr-Mudd,John to notsaying@nospicedham.127.0.0.1   
   Re: Calendar program   
   09 Oct 20 16:08:31   
   
   From: notsaying@nospicedham.127.0.0.1   
      
   On Thu, 08 Oct 2020 11:19:09 GMT, "Kerr-Mudd,John"   
    wrote:   
      
   > I found an old cal.com (900 bytes)   
   >>cal /? gives   
   >   
   > CAL  1.07  Freeware   
   > Copyright 1998, Charles Dye   
   >   
   > CAL   
   > CAL mm/yyyy   
   > CAL yyyy   
   >   
   uses 2 char days:   
      
   C:\>cal 2 2012   
      
         Feb 2012   
   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   
             1  2  3  4   
    5  6  7  8  9 10 11   
   12 13 14 15 16 17 18   
   19 20 21 22 23 24 25   
   26 27 28 29   
      
   [newcal]   
   > I have rewritten it to the same spec:   
   > cal               (uses current mth&year)   
   > cal mthname       (uses current year and mthname)   
   > cal mthname year  (uses year and mthname)   
   >   
   > current byte count is down to 465   
   >   
   459 - no jmps   
      
      
   C:\>d:newcal7 feb 2012   
      
           February 2012   
      
   Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat   
      
                1   2   3   4   
    5   6   7   8   9  10  11   
   12  13  14  15  16  17  18   
   19  20  21  22  23  24  25   
   26  27  28  29   
      
      
   I could probably^w undoubtedly save more by reducing the 'day' size, and   
   dropping the code to centralise the mth/year title, and text matching on   
   mthname.   
      
   Might be nice to have param of 'year' print a full year calendar.   
      
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