home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Frozen Fish 1: Amiga
/
FrozenFish-Apr94.iso
/
bbs
/
alib
/
d9xx
/
d945
/
reminder.lha
/
Reminder
/
QuickRef.doc
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1993-12-20
|
4KB
|
161 lines
QUICK REFERENCE FOR REMINDER 1.10
=================================
Reminder and ReminderCheck are (C) 1993 Matti Rintala
This is a quick reference for those people who are too lazy or
impatient to read much. For full documentation see TeX documentation
Reminder.tex and Reminder.dvi. For uglier full documentation see
Reminder.doc. For AmigaGuide documentation see Reminder.guide. Enough.
General
-------
Use Reminder to enter and edit dates you want to be reminded about.
Put ReminderCheck to SYS:WBStartup. It runs on bootup, reminds you if
necessary and then quits.
Reminder
--------
Day-gadget:
Day of month of your event. If left empty, means 'any
day'.
Month-gadget:
Month of your event. Pick from list or write into
gadget (beginning of month is enough, or the number).
If left empty or 'ANY', means 'any month'.
Year-gadget:
Year of your event. From 1993-2099. 93-99 ->
1993-1999, 00-92 -> 2000-2092. If left empty, means
'any year'.
Weekday-gadget: READ CAREFULLY!
Weekday restriction. If ANY, no restriction. Otherwise
the event is ON THE NEXT SPECIFIED WEEKDAY ON OR AFTER
THE DATE ENTERED.
The text gadget above Day-gadget shows the weeday for
non-repeating events which haven't got a weekday
specified. DO NOT COPY THIS WEEKDAY TO WEEKDAY-GADGET!
LET THE WEEKDAY-GADGET BE ``ANY'' (THAT'S WHAT YOU
WANT, ANYWAY).
Examples:
Weekday Day Month Year Explanation
ANY 22 March 1993 March 22nd, 1993
ANY 22 March March 22nd, every year
Thursday 1 ANY 1993 First Thursday of every month
on 1993
Monday 8 ANY Second Monday of every month
Sunday Every Sunday
Text-gadget:
Text describing your event. Max 80 chars.
Before-gadget:
After-gadget:
How many days before and after the event the reminding
should take place. If empty, means 0.
Delete when... -gadget:
If checked, event is deleted automatically when event
is acknowledged.
Grouped-gadget:
If checked, this event may be put in single requester
with all other grouped events on the day it is due.
ARexx radio buttons:
``Nothing'' means no ARexx. ``Script'' means start
ARexx script with name and argument given in
Comm/Script-gadget. Script gets date and event text
enclosed in double quotes as its last two arguments.
``Command'' sends the ARexx command given in
Comm/Script-gadget to ARexx port given in Port-gadget.
Comm/Script-gadget:
Contains ARexx command/script associated with the
eveent. See above.
Port-gadget:
ARexx port to which the ARexx command associated with
the event is sent. See above.
New-gadget:
Reset event gadgets to initial values.
Add-gadget:
Add event to database.
Remove-gadget:
Remove gadget from database.
Update-gadget:
Replace selected event with event in date gadgets.
Quit, no save -gadget:
Quit and save -gadget:
Self-explanatory. Window close gadget works also.
Keyboard shortcuts:
Underlined keys. 0-7 for weekdays. Cursor up and down
for event selection.
Icon tooltype or command line argument:
FILE=filename
Defines the name of the database file. Default:
S:Reminder.data.
ReminderCheck
-------------
Go away! -gadget:
Closes event requester, event not acknowledged (will
be reminded about on the next time also).
Acknowledge-gadget:
Closes event requester, event acknowledged. You won't
be reminded about the same date again.
Quit-gadget:
Terminate program immediately.
Keyboard shortcuts:
Underlined keys. ENTER = Go away!, ESC = Quit.
Icon tooltype or command line argument:
FILE=filename
Defines the name of the database file. Default:
S:Reminder.data.
INTERVAL=# hours
Minimum number of hours between two successive
remindings, no matter how often ReminderCheck is run.
NORQETOOLS
Causes ReminderCheck not to use RqeTools.library.
NOAREXX
Causes ReminderCheck not to open RexxSysLib.library
nor to do anything with ARexx.
MAXGROUP=no of events
Maximum number of events in one grouped requester.
Should be small enough so that the requester fits the
screen.
DONOTWAIT
Should be icon tooltype if used in SYS:WBStartup.