Re: Display Time

Kenneth White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would be vary happy to know how to put time into a DOS display.  I had an

You might mean run a resident program that displays time in some
corner of the MS-DOS screen? That's best done with an external
program (not actual batch) such as e.g. the one below. One other
(more pure batch-like) option is to change the prompt to show the
time (see e.g. HELP PROMPT and the prompt examples in tsbat).

ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tstsr23.zip Terminate Stay Resident, T.Salmi
Filename        Comment                              Date      Time
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ALARM.EXE       Resident alarm at hh:mm           Mar-22-1998  20:07:30
DISABLE.EXE     Disable any single standard key   Mar-23-1998  06:22:32
ENOUGH.EXE      Shutdown PC in so many minutes    Mar-23-1998  20:23:04
FILE_ID.DIZ     Brief characterization of TSTSR   Jul-27-1999  21:06:54
KEYCOUNT.EXE    Keystroke counter                 Mar-23-1998  20:34:14
LEDS.EXE        Caps, NumLock, ScrollLock status  Mar-24-1998  16:54:46
NOBOOT.EXE      Disable Alt-Ctrl-Del warm boot    Mar-24-1998  17:04:02
NOBREAK.EXE     Disable ctrl-C and ctrl-Break     Mar-24-1998  18:12:48
NOCAPSLC.EXE    Disable the CapsLock key          Mar-27-1998  11:46:58
NONUMLCK.EXE    Disable the NumLock key           Jul-27-1999  20:53:12
NUMLOCK.EXE     Force the NumLock key always on   Mar-27-1998  18:36:04
PINPOINT.EXE    Poinpoint the cursor location     Mar-27-1998  18:55:12
REGISTER.TXT    About registering this package    Jul-28-1999  07:15:40
RESCLOC2.EXE    Resident clock w. select row/col  Mar-27-1998  18:55:52
RESCLOCK.EXE    Resident clock                    Mar-27-1998  18:58:44
SHFTCAPS.EXE    Shift+CapsLock instead of CapsLc  Mar-27-1998  21:01:50
SHFTNUML.EXE    Shift+NumLock instead of NumLock  Mar-27-1998  21:06:14
SORDINO.EXE     Turn sounds off, shorter in fact  Mar-27-1998  21:10:44
TIMEDOWN.EXE    Resident countdown timer          Mar-28-1998  05:59:04
TIMEPEST.EXE    Resident elapsed time alarm       Mar-28-1998  05:59:50
TIMEUP.EXE      Resident countup timer            Mar-28-1998  06:00:38
TSPROG.INF      List of programs from Timo Salmi  Sep-04-1998  06:46:42
TSTSR.INF       Documentation (and a readme)      Jul-28-1999  07:44:10
TSTSR.NWS       News announcements about tstsr    Jul-28-1999  07:04:38
VAASA.INF       Info: Finland, Vaasa, U of Vaasa  Oct-18-1997  13:18:46
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   All the best, Timo

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Prof. Timo Salmi ftp & http://garbo.uwasa.fi/ archives 193.166.120.5
Department of Accounting and Business Finance  ; University of Vaasa
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/>  ; FIN-65101,  Finland
Useful batch files and tricks ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsbat.zip