ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN LIMA NEWSLETTER JANUARY 1992
 
                 "LF <enter>, 0 1 1 CLOCK"  
             a TI Writer hint by Charles Good 
                   Lima Ohio User Group 
      
3,11/06/91,18:59:52 
      
     I think I read about this sort of thing in a newsletter
somewhere, but I forgot the reference and had to rediscover
this trick from scratch. 
      
     From the Funnelweb or TIW editor you can time/date
stamp the first line of any new or existing text file with
this command if you have a PGRAM card with clock or a triple
tech clock.  This time/date information will produce a
display like that at the beginning of the text of this
article.  What you do is load a file called CLOCK without
specifying a drive number by typing LF <enter>, and then
typing "0 1 1 CLOCK" complete with spaces after the "0" and
after each "1".  This will put the time/date information in
the first line of any text file in the text buffer.  If you
want to put this information after a particular line other
than before the first line of an existing text file type LF
<enter> and then "X 1 1 CLOCK" where X is the line number
after which you want the time/date information displayed.  
      
     If you just type LF <ENTER> and then the file name
CLOCK without the "0 1 1", the computer will appear to lock
up until the entire text buffer fills with time/date
statements.   
      
     The time/date numbers at the beginning of this article
have the following meanings: 
     3= Wednesday, the fourth day of the week (0 = Sunday). 
     11/06/91 = the date, November 6, 1991. 
     18:59:52 = the time in 24 hours, minutes, and seconds. 
      
     You can then save your text file to disk for later
printing or modification complete with a built in record of
the last time the text file was modified.  If you put a
period immediately in front of the time/date numbers before
saving to disk, then you can print your text through the
FORMATTER and the time/date information will not be part of
the hardcopy.  You can also load your text file back into
the EDITOR's text buffer, delete the line with the time/date
stamp, and PF directly from the EDITOR without printing the
time/date information. 
     .PL 1