Hey Ben!   
      
   It finally caught up!   
      
    BR> Works for me, but my learning curve is very steep compared to   
    BR> yours   
      
   Not really.  I am still floored that this all works on NT.  I've run   
   across more than a few NT based systems over the years but yours is   
   the first to impress me ... and I haven't actually seen it.  Unreal.   
      
   Anyhow I have a +20 year head start and even with that am still   
   learning much about UNIX.  We can easily find out if coreutils 'date'   
   is onboard there.  Try this;   
      
     date +"%d %b %y  %T"   
      
   and if that produces the usual phoney-baloney FTM MSG type output   
   (two digit year and all) then I say it is a go.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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