the use of daysold in the spoolf and listfile commands would be a small
step in the right direction.  the expansion of this to a full set of MJD
functions which could be used by any program would be a much better
expansion.  the selection of ask's MJD was only done because I had the
code to do it.  using the MJD which wirt suggests of 1 Jan 1900 would be
a much better selection of a starting date.
one of the nice things of using a starting date within the past 20-30
years would be the size of the integer and the fact that it could be a
JCW for compatibility mode code.  perhaps the date of 1 Jan 1960( since
hp revision and serial numbers use this offset could be used).


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Vance [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 1998 7:06 PM
> To:   Simonsen, Larry
> Cc:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: ci functions
>
> Hello Lary,
>
> Thanks for the example.
>
> On Dec 30,  3:21pm, Simonsen, Larry wrote:
> ...
> > Or
> > !  SPOOLF O@;SELEQ=[dev=dlp AND ($today - DATE) > 7];SHOW;delete
>
> Would be nice if the SPOOLF command (and others) supported the
> keyword DAYSOLD.  Eg.
>    spoolf o@;seleq=[dev =dlp and daysold >7]...
>
> My SPOOK command file, available on jazz, implements 'daysold' in the
> show, purge and alter commands.
>
> --