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    From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Torsten Bamberg on Sun Apr 15 16:27:24 2018
    Hello Torsten,

    13 Apr 18 20:35 at you wrote to Janis Kracht:

    lol A date-command would be nice. ;-)

    Get JDeBP's 32-bit command line utilities package for OS/2. It has a real "date" command that doesn't prompt you; it just shows the date.

    Later,
    Sean

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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to All on Thu Apr 12 17:06:44 2018
    Hi Everyone,

    I just wanted to let everyone know that Ben is working on updating the script he uses to pull in the NASA FDN files. You know it goes, I expect.. A site reworks it's sites, links ip addresses or whatever, etc. which turns your previous methodology out the door <g> Just a heads up that he's working on it :)

    Take care,
    Janis

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to All on Thu Apr 12 17:42:22 2018
    Addendum:
    Hi Everyone,

    I just wanted to let everyone know that Ben is working on updating the script he uses to pull in the NASA FDN files. You know it goes, I expect.. A site reworks it's sites, links ip addresses or whatever, etc. which turns your previous methodology out the door <g> Just a heads up that he's working on it :)

    Take care,
    Janis
    ===========

    And he's got it going again! Thanks Ben!!

    Take care,
    Janis

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
  • From Torsten Bamberg@2:240/5832 to Janis Kracht on Fri Apr 13 00:16:50 2018
    Hallo Janis!

    12.04.2018 17:06, Janis Kracht schrieb an All:

    I just wanted to let everyone know that Ben is working on updating the script he uses to pull in the NASA FDN files. You know it goes, I expect.. A site reworks it's sites, links ip addresses or whatever,
    etc. which turns your previous methodology out the door <g> Just a
    heads up that he's working on it :)
    Sometime the nasa-apod site is a bit very 'different'. I've fixed the problem some months ago, since they announce some videos as well.

    My script uses rexx and wget, because of this my script just works on OS/2. Feel free to connect.


    =##= Anfang "OS/2 Clipboard" =##=
    = ANNOUNCE.024 (2:240/5832) ===================================================
    Msg : 11064 of 11065 Loc Scn
    From : DatenBahn BBS 2:240/5832 Do. 12. Apr. 23:00
    To : Alle
    Subj : Neues von der NASA ===============================================================================

    Neue Dateien aus dem System SOL:

    ===============================================================================

    AP_102_18.zip 522521 Area: DATENBAHN.NASAAPOD Origin: 2:240/5832
    M22 and the Wanderers - NASA Astrobild des Tages

    =============================================================================== Requestbar auf allen untenstehenden Lines:

    2:240/5832, V34+, CM
    2:240/5833, X75, CM
    2:240/5834, IBN, CM datenbahn.dd-dns.de, bamberg-ot.de

    Gruss Torsten/2


    -+- NEF/pk OS/2 2.45b2
    + Origin: DatenBahn BBS Hamburg (2:240/5832)

    =##= Ende "OS/2 Clipboard" =##=

    Take care,
    Janis
    Bye/2 Torsten

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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Torsten Bamberg on Thu Apr 12 23:21:54 2018
    Hi Torsten,
    My script uses rexx and wget, because of this my script just works on OS/2. Feel free to connect.

    Great minds think alike Lol.. Yes, my script also uses wget, the date command and lynx. :)

    I wrote the original script for Ben years ago, he has since updated/modified it. Works well :)

    Thank you for sending the location of yours as well :)

    Take care,
    Janis

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
  • From Torsten Bamberg@2:240/5832 to Janis Kracht on Fri Apr 13 20:35:18 2018
    Hello Janis!

    12.04.2018 23:21, Janis Kracht schrieb an Torsten Bamberg:

    My script uses rexx and wget, because of this my script just works
    on OS/2. Feel free to connect.
    Great minds think alike Lol.. Yes, my script also uses wget, the date command and lynx. :)
    lol A date-command would be nice. ;-)

    I wrote the original script for Ben years ago, he has since updated/modified it. Works well :)
    Well I've written the script, because I couldn't connect to Ben via binkd. This
    was the main reason. While writing the script, I expandet it to announce the headline and description of the daily nasa-apod-picture into the fido file-announcement.

    Thank you for sending the location of yours as well :)
    Ahm, it was an example of the nightly nasa-apod announcement of my system.
    I haven't released the script to public, because nobody asked me to.

    Take care,
    Janis
    Bye/2 Torsten

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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Sean Dennis on Tue May 1 09:07:50 2018
    Hello Torsten,

    13 Apr 18 20:35 at you wrote to Janis Kracht:

    lol A date-command would be nice. ;-)

    Get JDeBP's 32-bit command line utilities package for OS/2. It has a real "date" command that doesn't prompt you; it just shows the date.

    That's how Ubuntu's date command works... the command with no flags just displays the date:

    bbs@filegate:~$ date
    Tue May 1 09:01:27 EDT 2018

    I use it with various parameters depending on the script:

    num=`date +%j --date=Friday`
    pick=`expr substr $num 2 3`
    year=`date +%Y`

    Those lines are from my thursday makenl update script...

    Take care,
    Janis

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    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Sean Dennis on Sun May 6 19:27:20 2018
    Hi Sean,

    That's how Ubuntu's date command works... the command with no flags
    just displays the date:

    OS/2's shell has some definite quirks. That package I mentioned fixes many of
    those quirks and adds some serious functionality.

    That's good...

    I love the date command in bash. I use it a lot in BBS-related scripts.

    Yes, so do I :)

    Take care,
    Janis

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