This is the Annual section. Use the Arrow Keys, Pg Up, Pg Dn, to locate event, or type part of the event name. Press Enter key to edit event. DEL key to delete. INS key to add new events This is the Events menu View All: This is used only for editing and viewing events. You cannot add new events here. One-Time: Use this selection for One Time events. Annual: Use this for once a year events Monthly: Monthly events go here Weekly: Once a week events Sub-Weekly: Day within a week within every month. Incremental: Every days. Daily: Shows EVERY day. Use to select menu topic, or point to topic with mouse and click. Pressing the first letter of the current menu operates that choice. This is the view-all section. Use the Arrow Keys, Pg Up, Pg Dn, to locate event, or type part of the event name. Press Enter key to edit event. DEL key to delete. This is the Incremental section. Use the Arrow Keys, Pg Up, Pg Dn, to locate event, or type part of the event name. Press Enter key to edit event. DEL key to delete. INS key to add new events crMAIN2 Fair Warning!! Version 1.6 Jeff Slarve Fair Warning!! 1.6 is a continuation of the popular version 1.0. This program is designed as a valuable tool for keeping track of important events. It is especially helpful for people (like myself) that tend to forget important dates. (i.e. anniversaries, birthdays, etc Although there are many reminder programs available for use out there, none are as easy nor as powerful as Fair Warning!! Other programs are either too difficult to use, or lack features that would make anyone actually make use of the program. Press [ENTER] for next page MAIN3 With Fair Warning!! you can do the following: 1. Give yourself advanced warning (up to 14 days in advance) of an upcoming event. (Other reminder programs usually will only remind you of an event on the actual day of the event. This tends not to be very useful). 2. There is an excellent variety of "frequencies" of events to choose from: A. One-time is used for events that will happen only once. (Appointments, Vacation schedules, etc.) B. Annual is used for once a year events. (Birthdays, Anniversaries, etc.) C. Monthly is used for monthly events. (Mortgage payments, etc) D. Weekly is used for once a week events. ("every Monday, etc.) E. Daily will show every day. (I can't see a reason for this, but someone might want it F. Sub-Weekly is used for choosing a particular day within a particular week of a month. (i.e. a medical meeting on the 4th Thursday of every month.) An Excellent suggestion by a a customer. G. Incremental is used for custom increments of time. (Every 21 days from July 12 1993, etc.) [Enter] to continue MAIN4 Workings of Fair Warning!! 1. FAIRWARN.EXE: This is the program to be used when entering and editing events. 2. WARN.EXE : This is the "regularly run" program. This should be put into the AUTOEXEC.BAT (or other regularly run routine if you do not shut off computer every day). Notes on putting WARN.EXE in your regularly run batch file: Fair Warning should be put into it's own sub-directory. For now, we can assume it to be C:\WARN. When calling WARN.EXE from a batch file such as the AUTOEXEC.BAT, the following commands should be included: c: cd\WARN if you try to call WARN from another directory than where it exists, WARN will not be able to read your .DAT files (which is where your data is stored). [ENTER] to continue Workings of Fair Warning!! WARN.EXE searches your data file for any records that match the criteria that you put in when you entered the record. If it finds a record that meets your criteria, then that(those) record(s) will be displayd. If no records meet the criteria, then WARN will automatically exit to dos. EXAMPLE: You enter a monthly event that occurs on the 15th of every month. You want 3 days advanced notice of this particular event. You turn on your computer on the 11th of the month: WARN.EXE displays nothing, and exits to DOS. You turn on your computer on the 12th of the month: WARN.EXE displays your event, reminding you that it is coming up. You turn on your computer on the 15th of the month: WARN.EXE displays your event and an asterisk '*' is displayed in the left column, telling you that today is the day. You turn on your computer on the 16th of the month: WARN.EXE displays nothing, and exits to DOS. On the 12th of next month, the cycle resumes. This is the Monthly section. Use the Arrow Keys, Pg Up, Pg Dn, to locate event, or type part of the event name. Press Enter key to edit event. DEL key to delete. INS key to add new events This is the One-time section. Use the Arrow Keys, Pg Up, Pg Dn, to locate event, or type part of the event name. Press Enter key to edit event. DEL key to delete. INS key to add new events This is the Subweek section. Use the Arrow Keys, Pg Up, Pg Dn, to locate event, or type part of the event name. Press Enter key to edit event. DEL key to delete. INS key to add new events This is the update window for the annual event. Enter the name of the event and the date that the event occurs. Enter the number of days warning that you would like. HINT: If you give yourself too many days warning of an upcoming event, the "newness" of the event wears off, and you end up forgetting it anyway Usually about 3-6 days is plenty. This is the update window for the incremental event. Enter the name of the event and the beginning date that you wish to start the increment from. Enter the increment (in number of days) and enter the number of days warning. HINT: If you give yourself too many days warning of an upcoming event, the "newness" of the event wears off, and you end up forgetting it anyway Usually about 3-6 days is plenty. This is the update window for the monthly event. Enter the name of the event and the day that the event occurs. Enter the number of days warning that you would like. HINT: If you give yourself too many days warning of an upcoming event, the "newness" of the event wears off, and you end up forgetting it anyway Usually about 3-6 days is plenty. This is the update window for the one time event. Enter the name of the event and the date that the event occurs. Enter the number of days warning that you would like. HINT: If you give yourself too many days warning of an upcoming event, the "newness" of the event wears off, and you end up forgetting it anyway Usually about 3-6 days is plenty. This is the update window for the monthly event. Enter the name of the event and the day that the event occurs. Enter what week of the month that you wish to reference, and the number of days warning. HINT: If you give yourself too many days warning of an upcoming event, the "newness" of the event wears off, and you end up forgetting it anyway Usually about 3-6 days is plenty. This is the update window for the weekly event. Enter the name of the event and the day of the week that the event occurs. This is the Weekly section. Use the Arrow Keys, Pg Up, Pg Dn, to locate event, or type part of the event name. Press Enter key to edit event. DEL key to delete. INS key to add new events ANNUAL EVENTMNU EVENTS " INCRMNT MAIN $ MAIN2 K MAIN3 MAIN4 MONTHLY l ONETIME ~ SUBWEEK UPD_ANN UPD_INC k UPD_MON l UPD_ONE 4 UPD_SUB UPD_WEK WEEKLY