Re: How can I cause the datetime to be the name of the output file.....

Thanks Keith,

I realize that much of this is off topic. However, my question was
mostly directed. 7za.exe is an external command line utility that is
being used by my prog. to zip up the appropriate data files.

I thought that since the external had no good way to handle it, that I
could effectively handle this (as you so aptly pointed out) by somehow
generating a string.

Thanks for your excellent answer. I'll review it and see what I can
do. As I'm still learning C, it should prove a most difficult
challenge. I get the general principle, but will let you know when
I've get this implemented.

Also, thanks for clearing me up on the difference between headers and
libraries. I had been thinking that all of my #include's were actually
just declaring the appropriate libraries.

Merlin

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