leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) (02/03/90)
richard@calvin.spp.cornell.edu (Richard Brittain) writes: > A friend has an old XT with a clock card in it, and a program TIMER.COM >that reads the card and sets the DOS date/time. It broke at new year - the >program apparently hard coded the year as 8x (so much for things breaking >in 2000). I haven't been able to look at the card itself or dissect the >program, but is it possible that this clock is read in any kind of "standard" >way that another version of TIMER.COM might work - any pointers appreciated Well, first of all, there are entirely too many programs called "TIMER.COM" out there. And none of them compatibile with each other. But don't give up hope as most clock cards are childishly simple to talk to. When I get the time, I'll be finishing up a set of programs for dealing with those odd clock cards. The program is only a few lines of Turbo Pascal. The hard part is determining what the card's IO addresses are. That program is why I haven't posted the code already. If you have a copy of TP4.0 or later, and are willing to do some digging, I'll mail you my GETCLOCK and SETCLOCK programs, along with a program to help you hunt for the location of the clock card. -- Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard CIS: [70465,203] "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." -- Solomon Short