I was attempting to truncate the day from the DATE /T in shell or some derivative. I stumbled across the posting below and got it to work the way I want. However, I don't immediately understand the entries in the script that subsequently became the COM file. Can anyone shed some light on it. Hi, Below is the code to make a small com file that will get the day of the week. (using debug) N WEEKDAY.COM A 100 MOV AH, 2A INT 21 MOV AH, 4C INT 21 R CX 8 W Q Copy and paste the above in a file called weekday.scr Then the command to compile (lol) is debug < weekday.scr http://computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/4900.html

N WEEKDAY.COM - N... name of file to create A 100 - A... adresss for assemblercode (.com files start always at 100h) MOV AH, 2A - set dos function INT 21 - run dos function (interrupt) MOV AH, 4C - set dos function to end program with errorlevel INT 21 - end the program R CX - edit register CX 8 - set 8 bytes to write W - write program from memory to file Q - quit any questions?

DOS function 2Ah = GET DATE AL=Day of week CX=Year DH=Month DL=Day DOS function 4Ch = Terminate a Process (EXIT) Where Environment variable ERRORLEVEL set to AL Clear as mud. The current day of week is moved into the variable ERRORLEVEL as the programs EXIT code.

Thanks for the response Jack. Yep, clear as mud in the Mississippi. No, actually it tells me a lot.