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>>SUMMARY:
For informational purposes, the structure of the NetWare Bindery Property "LOGIN_CONTROL" is provided. It is primarily a feature of NetWare 2.x and 3.x. However, for upwards compatibility it is supported in NetWare 4.x under Bindery emulation.

>>MORE INFORMATION:

>>NOTE
Date is stored as a 3-byte binary string in the following format:
Offset 0: Year based from 1900 (i.e., year-1900)
Offset 1: Month (1-12)
Offset 2: Day (1-31)

Time is stored as a 3-byte binary string in the following format:
Offset 0: Hours (0-23)
Offset 1: Minutes (0-59)
Offset 2: Seconds (0-59)

>>IMPORTANT NOTE For Clipper and FoxPro users:
Offsets are listed above from base 0 (i.e., the first byte is #0). However, the SUBSTR() function uses offsets from base 1. Thus, the starting SUBSTR value is the offset+1. See the example below.

>>RESOLUTION/FIX:

>>EXAMPLE(S):
* Get Smith's grace login count.
* Notice that the SUBSTR() offset is the byte offset + 1
cPropVal = N_B_PRREAD("SMITH",1,"LOGIN_CONTROL")
IF !EMPTY(cPropVal)
nGrace = ASC(SUBSTR(cPropVal,8,1))
ENDIF

>>SEE ALSO:
File LOGINDAT.PRG in the snippets section of NetLib gives an example of extracting the last login date and time from the LOGIN_CONTROL property

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