Re: WWP related: omission in $DATE documentation (macro78.htm)

[Dan Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unbelievable!
At 08:25 AM 8/12/99 +0200, Cas Tuyn wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I thought it was just my courtesy to fellow documentation authors
>when I let support@quadralay.com know I found an omission in their
>documentation. Then I got the reply below, telling me have not 
>bought any support minutes!
>
>Any technical author or software developer would love this kind of 
>feedback to improve their product, but not the people at Quadralay, 
>it seems.
>
>Anyway, does anybody here have the full details on the DATE function
>in WWP?
>
>	Regards,
>
>Cas Tuyn                                             cas.tuyn@asml.nl
>Publications department                         tel: (+31) 40 2303723
>ASM Lithography                                 fax: (+31) 40 2303883
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>>From support@quadralay.com Thu Aug 12 00:00:11 1999
>To: "'Cas.Tuyn@asml.nl'" <Cas.Tuyn@asml.nl>
>Subject: RE: omission in $DATE documentation (macro78.htm)
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>Dear Cas,
>
>Our technical support policy and procedure have recently changed.
>Beginning April 15, 1999, support is available only during an evaluation
>period or through the purchase of support minutes. Your record in our 
>database does not reflect the information necessary to enable us to 
>process your request at this time. Your support minute balance appears 
>to be 0.
>
>We hope that this has not inconvenienced you and look forward to serving
>you.
>
>Quadralay Support
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Cas.Tuyn@asml.nl [mailto:Cas.Tuyn@asml.nl]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 8:36 AM
>> To: support@quadralay.com
>> Cc: Cas.Tuyn@asml.nl
>> Subject: omission in $DATE documentation (macro78.htm)
>> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Configuration: WWP5 (2000) on UNIX Solaris.
>> 
>> In our templates I noticed the use of $DATE(c), however this
>> parameter is not mentioned in the $DATE(argument) html 
>> documentation page. Are there more undocumented DATE parameters?
>> 
>> I want to display the date as: d Mnn CCYY (5 Aug 1999)
>> so what parameters should I use for:
>>  - the day number of the month without a leading 0
>>  - the 3 letter month abbreviation
>> 
>> The date format "d Mnn CCYY" is our company standard because
>> we are a global company, and this way USA and rest-of-world
>> people do not mix up the months and days.
>> 
>> 
>> 	Regards,
>> 
>> Cas Tuyn                                             cas.tuyn@asml.nl
>> Publications department                         tel: (+31) 40 2303723
>> ASM Lithography                                 fax: (+31) 40 2303883
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