Tandy 1000 MS-DOS Reference Manual page 80

Chapter 6 / Command Reference
• Suppose you have a program that keeps track of purchase
orders according to the date received. For some reason, you get
behind and can not enter the information on that date. Simply
enter it later, after turning back the calendar to the necessary
date.
• You can also use DATE and TIME to include the date and
time on a printout. For example, press
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PRINT
1 or
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CTRL
1
W
to
send all output to the line printer, as well as to the screen.
Then type:
date
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ENTER
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ENTER
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t
1
me
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ENTER
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ENTER
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Press
I
PRINT
I
again to turn off the print output function. Now
use
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SHIFT
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PRINT
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PRINT
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CTRL
I W,
or the PRINT command as
necessary to make your printout.
• In Version 3.2 MS-DOS, you can change the format in which
the date is displayed and entered. The COUNTRY command
in the CONFIG.SYS file lets you change the date format to
the European standard, dd-mm-yy. Refer to Appendix B for
more information.
Examples
date
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ENTER
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displays the current date and prompts you for the new date. For
example, if the date is July 16, 1986, MS-DOS displays:
Current date
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7-16-1986
Enter new date:
You can now change the date or press
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ENTER
I
to bypass the
prompt.
da
t
e
~ 7/1 4/1986
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ENTER
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enters the current date as July 14, 1986.
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