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RE: date in a backgrounf task ?
- To: mh at mike dot franken dot de
- Subject: RE: date in a backgrounf task ?
- From: dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 01:22:19 +0100 (MET)
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com, dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de
Hi Michael, you wrote:
: I'm trying to use "date" in a batch file, which is called by an NT service
: (Legato Networker save). Whenever the date command gets started, it sits
: there doing nothing, leaving the batch file waiting forever. Only way to
: get the batch running further is to kill date.exe from taskmanager.
Maybe you have different PATH settings and got the "DOS" version first?
For that, you need something like: date<nul
Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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