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- N (Philema Perspectives) in the SHORTIES directory
-
- A simple name for a simple program: in 25-line text mode, this program
- provides an informative and appropriate substitute for the CLS
- command: it clears the screen, but puts an informative banner across
- the top, declaring date, memory statistics and current disk statistics
- at high speed. If you are using CGA, N will adopt the colours of the
- top leftmost screen character. You don't need ANSI.SYS to run this -
- but if you do have it installed, the colours you impose on MS-DOS
- through it will be used by N.
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- DAT (Brian Morrissey) in the SHORTIES directory
-
- It is often useful to have the date printed out: for example, at the
- head of redirected files (using the > facility on DOS commands). The
- MS-DOS command DATE produces this, but also wants a new date - or at
- least [return] - to be keyed. Besides, that date is not in a 'nice'
- form. DAT is a short program that echoes the date in a decent form,
- and doesn't require any keystrokes in answer.
- This can be useful coded alone on a line in a batch file: it
- will echo the date to the screen; but it may be very useful echoed to
- the printer, or to a file.