Hello Bill,

07 Apr 17 22:35 at you wrote to me:

 BM> Spent a few sleepless nights on this one.. lol!!

I decided to cheat and change the program to output the day of the year as an 
error code:

=== Begin code ===
Program DOY;

Uses
  CRT, Sysutils, Dateutils;

Var
  Day : Word;

Begin
  Day := DayOfTheYear(Today);
  WriteLn('Today is day #' + IntToStr(Day));
  Halt(Day);
End.
=== End code ===

It's a cheap trick, but it works wonders. 

In bash, you can use $? to grab the error code:

#!/bin/bash
./doy
echo "Day #$?"

Kinda backwards using bash but proof-of-concept for use under Windows in a 
way...

Later,
Sean

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