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From:Dave Clarke
Date:5 May 2001 at 03:40:57
Subject:Re: [D5] ARexx query

Once upon a time, 04-May-01 04:12:33, sp.amix spoke thus about
'Re: [D5] ARexx query':

>On 1 May 01, at 2:30, Jonathan Hart wrote:

>> >From what I've looked at with .dopus5 scripts the way is to use ||lf||,
>> >but
>> I cannot for the life of me get this to work. Can anyone give me a working
>> example- a few lines of code?

>/* Example.rexx */

>LF = '0a'x

>SAY 'This is the first line...'�LF�'...and this is the second line.'
^ ^
Should both be ||, ie. two parallel vertical bars.

>Yuk ! My favourite. I avoided such tasks until now by simply dropping any
>time stuff from my scripts ;-) However, rmh.library by Alfonso Ranieri (it
>is on Aminet) has some functions for dealing with timers (that is not the
>same, but might also include time conversion).

Or there is also date.library available on Aminet.

Dave



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