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- CheckDate V1.100
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- COPYRIGHT
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- CheckDate is declared as Freeware, so anybody may use it without
- any charge. You are welcome to give this program to your friends,
- as long as you do not charge any money for it. All rights are
- reserved, because I'll certainly publish a modified version in a
- local computer magazine.
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- WHAT IS IT ?
-
- CheckDate is a "real life utility". I wrote it after my machine
- crashed and I worked several days with a date in 2002, which
- caused some UUCP-Sites to crash. :-))
-
- This is prevented by CheckDate now. When started for the first
- time, CheckDate writes the current date to disk. From now on,
- every time you start CheckDate, it will load that date and
- compare it with the current in your real-time-clock. If the dates
- differ by more than a specific number of days, CheckDate will
- alert you.
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- USAGE
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- CheckDate recognizes the following parameters:
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- [Filename] [MaxDiff/N] [Install/S]
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- Filename - This is an optional parameter, which specifies
- the path CheckDate saves the current date to.
- If you leave out this one, the default path
- ("ENVARC:CHECKDATE") will be used.
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- MaxDiff - Using this optional parameter, you can change
- the number of days that CheckDate considers is
- a "normal" difference. Default is two days.
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- If the actual date is earlier than the last
- saved one, CheckDate will alert you in any
- case.
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- Install - The usage of this keyword forces CheckDate to
- overwrite the last saved date without any
- checking. This could be used once a wrong date
- has been saved. To examine the stored date,
- simply examine the datestamp of the datefile
- (the contents of the datefile can't be typed
- out).
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- INSTALLATION
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- The best way is to call CheckDate in one's User-Startup file, so
- the date will be tested every time you boot your machine. (If you
- do not use your Amiga very often, [Oh, bad guy!] increase the
- maximum-day-difference!)
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- Guys who don't boot their machine very often, like Sysops, should
- elect another place to call CheckDate. Use Cron to execute it
- every day or include it in a batchfile you run regularly.
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- If the case appears and the date has been corrupted, CheckDate
- sets the WARN-Flag, so you can easily correct the date directly
- in the batchfile.
-
- ;-------------- Cut here---------
- [...]
- CheckDate
- If WARN
- Date <* ?
- SetClock SAVE
- EndIf
- [...]
- ;-------------- Cut here---------
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- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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- CheckDate requires OS V2.04 or higher.
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- THE AUTHOR
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- If you have any comments for me or just want to tell me that you
- hate my program, don't hesitate to contact me on one of the
- following addresses:
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- Snail-Mail: Peter Simons E-Mail: simons@peti.GUN.de (Usenet)
- Europaring 20 2:242/7.25 (FIDO-Net)
- D-5300 Bonn 1
- Germany Voice: Tel. 0228 / 746061
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