Subj : System check ??? To : Gerald Miller From : Jasen Betts Date : Thu Oct 24 2002 09:48 pm Hi Gerald. 22-Oct-02 12:01:23, Gerald Miller wrote to Jasen Betts GM> Hello Jasen, GM> Please do me the favor of running the following snippet and please GM> tell me your results the number is 8432 I'm not fussy about the separartor but the computer uses / codepage is 437 country is 61 (Australia) Now that I know to edit the data file into aus format it's no big problem. a different way to handle it would be to store day month and year in spearate fields :) I just had a thought: maybe you can use this for something. :) echos date format is: echo %@replace[2,d,%@replace[20,yy,%@replace[1,m,%@makedate[14936]]]] -=> Bye <=- --- * Origin: Did you know... That no-one ever reads these things? (3:640/531.42) .