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       ************  INSTRUCTIONS FOR AMIGA CALENDAR ***********

Introduction:
   Amiga Calendar is a Multi-feature "data base" calendar that includes the
   following items:
   1. Look at any calendar, past or future from year 1 to year 9999.
   2. Five available symbols allow you to glance at a calendar to see when
      Birthdays, Bills, Meetings, Notes, Holidays are.
   3. Double click Mouse on day for access to data base for more detail.
   4. Reminds you of events posted on Amiga Calendar for the next 30 days.
   5. Looks at the past 30 days from system date to update past events.
   6. Allows for posting of data up to 10 months ahead of system date.
   7. Allows automatic posting in "Bills" segment of a monthly pay scedule.
   8. Easy access of last or next month or year.
   9. Diary feature lets you put 100 words of text each day or look at past
      diary inputs.
   10. Makes use of the built-in speech capibilities of the Amiga.

Start:
   1. Amiga Calendar uses most of 512k, so close any other activity before
      running it or reboot.
   2. To start Calendar:
      a.  place disk in Drive 0 and re-boot Computor
      b.  or from cold start place disk in when Amiga asks for Workbench.
      c.  or boot from Workbench (close any other activity first).
   3. Setting the system date:
      a.  This can be done in Preferences
      b.  or with "CLI". In "CLI"   1> date 02-feb-86   will set the date.
          make sure you use this exact format or the date will not be set.
      c.  or input the date when the system is re-booted.
   4. Open Calendar Disk
      a. To conserve memory drag "Calendar" icon out of the window.
      b. Then close the window
      c. Then double click the "Calendar" icon.
      d. Turn up your sound to hear Amiga talking.

Ready to use Calendar:
   1. Notice the current months calendar is displayed on the screen.
   2. The current day number is printed in inverse (white letters black
      background). Sundays are in Red Letters.

Look at other Calendars:
   Look at the bottom left corner of the screen
   <LAST | MONTH | NEXT>  RESTORE  JUMP
   1. Point mouse at "NEXT" and click left button. Next Months calendar
      will be displayed.
   2. Point mouse at "LAST" and click left button. Last Months calendar
      will be displayed.
   3. Point mouse at "MONTH" and click left button. It will change to
      "YEAR". Now you can look at the next and last year.
   4. Point mouse at "RESTORE" and click left button. The calendar will
      be reset to Today's or System date.
   5. Point mouse at "JUMP" and click left button. A little Requester
      window will appear. Type in date exactly as shown in window.

Accessing the Data base:
   1. You may have noticed a file titled "cal.data" in the calendar disk
      window. This calendar stores the data for each day of the year.
   2. This file has 366 records, one for each day of the year. Each
      has 10 fields. This means that 10 items may be stored on each day.
   3. To look at the data in the file, point the mouse to the day of your
      choice and click left button. The day number will be printed in
      inverse. Click the left button again. The data base screen will
      appear.
   4. The screen will be sectioned in 6 parts. You may make a total of
      10 entries on each day and a maximum of 5 entries in the birthday,
      Bills, Meetings, and notes section and one entry in holiday.
   5. To input data point mouse to the section of your choice. A red
      cursor will appear. Type in the appropiate data. Hit the RETURN
      key or left mouse button when input is complete.
   6. To edit text on the screen point to the line you want to edit and
      click the left button. Cursor will appear. Type in data.
   7. To delete a line of text point to the line on the screen, as in
      edit, and click the left mouse button. Now hit the DEL key. The
      entire line will disappear. Delete funtion will work any time you
      are inputting data on screen.
   8. The backspace key will erase characters on line. The right and left
      arrows will positon the cursor on line for making corrections.
   9. When a Holiday is input you will be asked if it is permanent. A
      permanent holiday is one that falls on the same day every year, like
      Christmas, New Years Day and the 4th of July. Non-permanent holidays
      are ones like Easter, Memorial Day or Labor Day that fall on different
      days each year.
   10. Select EXIT with mouse and click left button to exit. The screen
      will disappear and the calendar reappear. If any changes were made
      the data will be stored on disk and the symbols will be put on the
      appropiate day.

Reminders:
   1. Point mouse at REMIND and click left button. The next 30 days will
      be reviewed item by item.
   2. Bills will be added up and total displayed.

Update the past 30 days:
   1. This searches the past 30 days and cleans up the file.
   2. If there are any Bills found, Amiga Calendar will ask you if you
      payed them. If you answer "yes" they will be deleted from the file.
   3. Amiga Calendar will delete any meetings or non-permanent holidays.
   4. If any notes are found then you be asked if you completed the task.
      A "yes" answer will delete the note.
   5. Finally Amiga Calendar will update any payment scedules (see payment
      scedule section).

Diary:
   1. Select on calendar screen the day you want to input diary. Make
      sure you are in the current year.
   2. Select DIARY with mouse and click left mouse button. A nifty little
      Diary will appear and the cover will open.
   3. You can put about 100 words in each day (520 characters).
   4. A new diary file is started each year.
   5. Move cursor with the 4 arrow keys or point to section of screen
      with mouse and click left button. Use backspace to delete characters.
   6. Select EXIT to quit input. Data will then be saved on disk.

Payment Scedules:
   1. Select PAYMENT SCEDULE in the righthand corner of the screen.
   2. This selection is for automatic posting of monthly time payments
      in the "Bills" segment.
   3. A maximum of 18 payment scedules may be input (my gosh, I hope no
      one has that many bills).
   4. Input the Name, the day of the month the bill is due and the month
      and year of the last payment.
   5. Amiga Calendar will post these payments 10 months ahead of time.
   6. The update selection will keep up on the posting of time payments.

Making data backups:
   If you do not want to backup to whole disk you can copy all or some of
   of the data files depending which ones that you have added data.
   Here is a list of the file names:
   1. "cal.data". It has 366 records. Each record is 310 bytes. It holds
      the daily data records.
   2. "diary.data`year'". Each time an entry is made into the diary one
      record is added to this file. Each record is 520 bytes.
   3. "diary.index`year'". Each time an entry is make into the diary one
      record is added to this file. Each record is 2 bytes. This contains
      the month and day of the diary entry into "diary.data`year'".
   4. "cal.symbol.dat". This file has 12 records, 32 bytes each. This file
      tells calendar where to put the symbols for each month.
   5. "pay.scedule". This file has 18 records, 39 bytes each. This holds
      the data for the payment scedules.

If you make copies of files:
   1. Copy "cal.data" and "cal.symbol.dat" in tandem. (Do not copy one
      without copying the other.)
   2. Copy "diary.index`year'" and "diary.data`year'" in tandem.

If somehow you loose "cal.data" or want to start up a new data base,
   Amiga Calendar will initialize a new "cal.data" and a new
   "cal.symbol.dat" if there is not one on the disk. This will take a
   couple minutes to process.

If you have any questions or suggestions call or write:
   Mark Hurst
   23301 S.W. McKibben Rd.
   Sheridan Or. 97378
   [phone]

Happy Calendaring!!