Older Version of Norton Utilities - Batch
Kristin Teague
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I am a consultant working with GTE Supply. We are in the process of
ensuring that their applications are Y2K compliant. I have come
across an application that uses a very old version of Norton
Utilities (DOS Batch). I'm sorry, I cannot give a version number,
none is displayed when executing the utility, and the original disks
are long gone. There are 4 utilities in use: Ask.exe, Beep.exe,
Timedate.exe, and Yesno.exe. While searching through the
KnowledgeBase, I found Technical Manual, App.: Batch Enhancer.
Timedate.exe and Yesno.exe utilities are not commands available in
Norton Utilities 8.0 Batch Enhancer (BE.exe). Does their
functionality exist outside BE.exe? Is this a complete listing of
the commands available to BE.exe? Has this functionality been
eliminated? Since I am doing Y2K compliance, I am mostly interested
in the Timedate.exe utility. Any help you can provide regarding this
will be greatly appreciated.
Mark Perkins [Symantec]
On 26 Mar 1998 17:13:33 GMT, Kristin Teague <kristin...@gtes.com>
wrote:
>I am a consultant working with GTE Supply. We are in the process of
>ensuring that their applications are Y2K compliant. I have come
>across an application that uses a very old version of Norton
>Utilities (DOS Batch). I'm sorry, I cannot give a version number,
>none is displayed when executing the utility, and the original disks
>are long gone. There are 4 utilities in use: Ask.exe, Beep.exe,
>Timedate.exe, and Yesno.exe. While searching through the
>KnowledgeBase, I found Technical Manual, App.: Batch Enhancer.
>Timedate.exe and Yesno.exe utilities are not commands available in
>Norton Utilities 8.0 Batch Enhancer (BE.exe). Does their
>functionality exist outside BE.exe? Is this a complete listing of
>the commands available to BE.exe? Has this functionality been
>eliminated? Since I am doing Y2K compliance, I am mostly interested
>in the Timedate.exe utility. Any help you can provide regarding this
>will be greatly appreciated.
Hello Kristen,
Those *are* old <g>. Though I doubt that they have been tested for
Y2K compliance, I will need some more info in order to check. What
are the filedates on those files?
Mark Perkins
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Symantec Corporation
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wil...@gte.net
On 1998-03-26 kristin...@gtes.com said:
>I am a consultant working with GTE Supply. We are in the process of
>ensuring that their applications are Y2K compliant. I have come
>across an application that uses a very old version of Norton
>Utilities (DOS Batch). I'm sorry, I cannot give a version number,
>none is displayed when executing the utility, and the original disks
>are long gone. There are 4 utilities in use: Ask.exe, Beep.exe,
>Timedate.exe, and Yesno.exe. While searching through the
>KnowledgeBase, I found Technical Manual, App.: Batch Enhancer.
>Timedate.exe and Yesno.exe utilities are not commands available in
>Norton Utilities 8.0 Batch Enhancer (BE.exe). Does their
>functionality exist outside BE.exe? Is this a complete listing of
>the commands available to BE.exe? Has this functionality been
>eliminated? Since I am doing Y2K compliance, I am mostly interested
>in the Timedate.exe utility. Any help you can provide regarding
>this will be greatly appreciated.
I have NU 4.5 & 5.0 here and there seems to be no timedate or yesno
programs. Maybe they were part of an even older NU.
They were probably third party utils used in the batch files.
I've heard of the yesno program before.
You could probably use alternate utilities to do the same. On SimTel is
a timedate utility that may work out.
file_td2.zip FTD: Set time and/or date of one or many files
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/fileutil/file_td2.zip
I'm assuming of course that timedate.exe sets (touches) file times/dates.
NU 4.5 does come with an fd.exe to change the time/date of files.
If timedate.exe is a reporting program (the batch file asks for the
time/date of a file and then acts on it depending on output) there
may be a few like it.
In SimTel's batch utilities dir (forget the actual name) is
chktd15.zip Check current time/date and set errorlevel.
There's also a few Y/N prompting utilities I think.
ask11c.zip, ask3.zip, ask_bat.zip, and askmep.zip.
Yesno.exe used to be part of some installation batch file used
with old programs.
Marc
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