>>>1. Open a new NotePad document
>>>2. Put ".LOG" as the first line
>>>3. Save the document
>>>
>>>Now, every time you open the document with NotePad, it will automatically append the current date/time.
>>
>>Got it on second time... and even when they insert a cool feature, they have to screw it up...
>>
>>1) .log doesn't work, it must be .LOG
>>
>>2) it's time/date, not date/time with my system settings... in which there's nothing to indicate whether a datetime should be displayed with date or time first, they are set independently and the order is not set at all.
>>
>>Here's how I was doing that for years:
>>
>>

#define cr chr(13)
>>#define c_log "the.log"
>>SET DATE YMD
>>set hours to 24
>>_screen.Visible=.t.
>>IF FILE(c_log)
>>	t=FDATE(c_log,1)
>>	ltClosed=TEXTMERGE([-- closed at <<t>>])+cr+cr+cr
>>ELSE
>>	ltClosed=""
>>endif
>>*-- TEXT BLOCK BEGIN
>>TEXT TO  cBuf NOSHOW TEXTMERGE PRETEXT 0
>> <<ltClosed>><<SYS(0)>> <<DATETIME()>>
>>ENDTEXT
>>*-- TEXT BLOCK END
>>*[2014/02/18 11:48:54] nDragan - I just like macdesktop, works nice with two monitors
>>=strtofile(cr+cr+cBuf, c_log,1)
>>modify file (c_log) range 1e6, 1e6 nowait in macdesktop
>>

>
>Not exactly on topic but this reminds me of something Rick Strahl posted on Facebook recently. It was a map of the globe with the countries which use mmddyy format highlighted. You can probably guess the only one.
>
>Have a blessed 04/21/14!

Hi Mike,

Trying to test the limits? :)

Ken