Date   : Thu, 21 Nov 1991 11:45:43 GMT
From   : Christopher Currie <c.currie@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk>
Subject: time's erratic arrow

             FAULTS IN Z80DOS DATESTAMPING UTILITIES

I should be grateful for any help with date/time stamping 
utilities for Z80DOS. I use a z-system for the TRS-80 Model 4 
(without a realtime clock) which I did not put together myself 
and which includes Z80DOS 2.4. I downloaded Z80DOS10.LBR, 
SDATE10.LBR and Z8D-UTL1.LBR but could not make the utilities 
work together:

 Initdir sets up an additional dummy directory entry for every 
three existing entries, into which the datestamp is put. 

With Datereg installed, I could get SDATE10 to set the date of 
the disk volume, and TIME would display the date correctly.

If I set the date with TIME, however, and then read it back, I 
got a garbled result.

SAVESTMP saved the datestamp in a position within the dummy 
directory entry which was different from that where SDATE10 put 
it.

Z80DOS appears to datestamp files, as they are accessed, with the 
date set by SDATE10, but neither the TDIR-CPM nor the TDIR-Z3 
utilities would display the dates in the directory; instead, the 
computer hung.

I could not get any of the aliases in MODDATE to work.

Has anyone any suggestions on how to get these utilities to work 
correctly? Is there a different set of utilities for Z80DOS 2.4? 
If so, where can I get them from?


Christopher Currie

c.currie@uk.ac.ulcc.clus1 (JANET)