Subj : Something unexpected....
To   : Jasen Betts
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Wed Dec 04 2002 09:33 am

Hello Jasen,

    On Saturday November 30 2002 at 19:55,
    Jasen Betts [3:640/531.42] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about:  Something unexpected....

 JB>>> or set up a printer capture and activate printer echo that way
 JB>>> it'll come on-screen and go into a file.
 GM>> No can do - no printer....  :((
 JB> Grab something like prn2file.com that turns lpt1 output into a disk
 JB> file. that's what I meant by printer capture.

I do believe that program sounds familiar and I'll have to search out the
hard drives for the file....  ;-)

 JB> dunno where I got it from. it came from pc-mag way back when.
 JB>>> or just print less stuff on the screen.

Yes, there is that possibility too, but would probably require major
modifications to a number of BTM files....  I'll have to check out this
step.

In regards to the Leap Year Calculation.....

Previously, you had stated:

::  Next is never used but I'll convert it too :)
    set date=%@instr[57,8,%@line[%bootfile,%n]]
    set next=%dateconversion

If next is never used, can it now be used for the LYC?

Somehow, the "next" field was replaced with "³%@makedate[%nextdate]³"...

I now *_think_* I meant that "set nextdate=%@eval[%@date[%last]+%when]"
_should_ have been "set next=%@makedate[%@eval[%@date[%last]+%when]]"....

Oh well, I guess I messed up.  ;-)

The snippet that I found for leap year calc....

=== Cut ===
::  Determine Leap Year (LPY)
  set lpy=NO
  if %@eval[%_year %% 4] = 0 set lpy=yes
  if %@eval[%_year %% 100] = 0 set lpy=NO
  if %@eval[%_year %% 400] = 0 set lpy=yes
=== Cut ===

Now, to apply it to %when if greater than 365 and %next is a leap year...

           Cheers ... Gerald

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