On Nov 22, 2018 06:38am, Joe Schweier wrote to All:

 JS> I use an OS/2 VM, Arca Noae, and I'm using FD/2 FE/2 and Irex/2 to send
 JS> and receive mail.  Anyway, I have a line in an old batch file I use to
 JS> run on any windows maching, or DOS machine.... BTW it still works on my
 JS> windows 10 machine.

Which is what I have set up here.

 JS> for /f "delims=" %%x in.... See it in the section beclow??

 JS> :Start

 JS> @echo off
 JS> :start
 JS> cd\Somewhere
 JS> for /f "delims=" %%x in ('date /t') do set date=%%x
 JS> del joes.asc
 JS> echo %Date% >>JOES.ASC

 JS> ..... Much Much Much deleted....

 JS> goto ad

 JS> :ad
 JS> PM /I:JOES.ASC /T:All /S:BBS AD %date% /C:21
 JS> :Stop

 JS> That line captures the current date and then I can add it into my BBS
 JS> ad txt file....

 JS> Anyway, is there a similar command for OS/2??

The same ECHO command should work natively under ArcaOS as well.

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