So, anyone got an imitation Multics 'memo' command?

[Bob Fetter]

In article <1991May30.103104.24322 at gdr.bath.ac.uk> P.Smee at bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee) writes:
>Yep.  In later incarnations it also knew about 'before' and 'after', so
>(to pick an example from the manual)
>   Tuesday after Monday on or after 11/1
>is Election Day in the US -- i.e. the Tuesday after the first Monday
>in November.  The baroque
>   Tuesday after Monday on or after 11/1 -1 week
>would be the Tuesday before that, as would
>   Tuesday before Monday on or after 11/1
>
>'Easter -2 days' is Good Friday.



  Is there (E)BNF available for the date/time strings that can be shared
outside of Bull?  With that, munging the details (like easter) should
be straightforward/at least do-able.

  Also, isn't there a convert_date_to_binary_$relative_time rtn (or
something similar) which just parsed time deltas from current time?
I'm thinking of memo's "-repeat 2 weeks" argument.  Or was that just
a degenerate case of not giving a base time along with the delta in
the string?  It *has* been a while (longer than I really care to think
about)...


  -Bob-