On Wednesday, January 08, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote: > I don't do much simulator scripting, but I have found one slight > inconvenience with regards to the %DATE% and %TIME% variables. > > I'm trying to setup my simulator command file to attach a text file to the > simulators LPT that is dated and timed, so I don't accidentally wipe out > previous LPT listings (or make them grow to very large sizes). As they are at > present, the %DATE% and %TIME% (and the %CTIME%, but that can be left > alone) variable are really not suited for direct use as a part of creating a > file > name. > > Would it be possible to reformat the %DATE% variable to be ISO 8601 > compliant? That is, change the forward slashes to hyphens.
Done. > Secondly, would it be possible to make the %TIME% variable either return > the time without the colons? (ISO 8601 "basic" format, as opposed to the > current ISO 8601 "extended" format.) There now is a %STIME% which returns the time as hh_mm_ss. > Alternatively, if there is some way to "massage" a the text strings reported > by %DATE% and %TIME% to be something usable for a filename in the > simulator command language I would not mind that either. > > > As to what I'm trying to do: > ATTACH LPT listing_%DATE%_%TIME%.txt > Though, as mentioned previously, the current return strings for %DATE% and > %TIME% will make -- at least Windows -- complain. > > Thank you, > Christian That should work now. The Windows binaries will be updated in a couple of minutes. - Mark _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
