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--On Monday, September 12, 2005 20:37:22 +0200 Frank Mueller - emendis GmbH 
<Frank.Mueller@emendis.de> wrote:

> To get the date in the right format you could simply use
>
> date +%H
>
That solves one-half of the problem.  I would still have to get the hour 
from the file into the correct format.  Otherwise I'll simply move the 
error message to a different variable.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
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University of Texas at Dallas
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