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Reminder Ver. 1.91 Documentation
Program and Documentation By: Jim Johnson
(C) Copyright 1991
The program 'Reminder' and its documentation are being released as
Shareware. After a 30 day evaluation period, if you decide that
this program is one you would like to use, you are required to
register it by sending $10 to the author at the address below.
I will and do hold the copyright to this program and its documentation
but, I am granting you a limited license to and copy and
distribute as long as the distributed copies are in their original
un-modified form including the program and documentation.
This program is being provided 'AS-IS' without warranty of any kind
either expressed or implied. Jim Johnson shall not be held liable
or responsible for any damage or loss including but not limited to
lost data, loss of wages, damage to software or hardware. By your
use of this program you are knowingly and willingly using this
program AT YOUR OWN RISK, and are agreeing to the terms of this
limited license.
* Using Reminder
The program Reminder requires 2 files to run correctly, they are
'REMINDER.COM' and 'REMINDER.DAT'. The COM file is the program and
the DAT file is the data file.
What Reminder does is this......When REMINDER.COM is added to your
autoexec.bat file, it will search through the data file for any
entry that has the same date as the day's current date. When the
program comes across a match it will print out the text (or the
reminder) on that line to the screen, and continue searching for
another match until the end of the data file is reached. Then the
execution of the autoexec.bat file is resumed.
* Setting Reminder Up
It is really simple to set Reminder up on your system, all you'll
need to do is add 1 or 2 line to your autoexec.bat file. Below I
have given you 2 examples. The first one would work best if you
have a hard drive and a menu program. The second one could be used
from a floppy based system, or a system that doesn't use a menu.
Autoexec.bat #1 Autoexec.bat #2
echo off echo off
path=c:\;c:\dos prompt $p$g
prompt $p$g reminder.com
reminder.com ^Z
pause
menu
^Z
The 'pause' command after 'Reminder.com' will stop the execution of
the autoexec.bat file until you press a key to continue. This way
the Reminder's won't scroll of the screen before you get a chance
to read them.
Reminder Ver. 1.91 Documentation
Program and Documentation By: Jim Johnson
(C) Copyright 1991
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* Adding reminders to 'Reminder.dat'
To add reminders to the data file you'll want to use an ASCII text
editor. Just about anything will work from DOS' Edlin to Word
Perfect (if you save it as an ASCII file). I would suggest using
SLED written by Sam Wilmott of Ottawa, Ontario Canada. I have been
using SLED for quite some time and have found that it is a very easy
and useful text handling tool. The format of the reminder data file
is date in the form of MM-DD-YY, a space and then the line of text
you want to add. If you have a reminder that will take more then
one line you'll need to add the date to the beginning of all the
lines. As an example:
01-01-91 This is a reminder in the 'Reminder.dat' file that will
01-01-91 take more then one line to print to the screen.
Also note that you don't have to worry about keeping the dates in
order as the whole data file is searched for matching dates to
display. The only time you'll need to worry about the order of the
reminders is in such a case as the above example. The program will
print each entry as it comes across them, if the second line in the
above example were first in the data file it would have been printed
first, and your reminder would make no sence.
* Final notes
You will more then likely want to go through the 'REMINDER.DAT' file
every so often and remove the reminders from days gone by. I have
considered adding an automatic deletion of entries but, if your
computer is turned on and off more then once per day and those
reminders where for someone else, then they are gone, and won't be
seen by the intended remindee.
If there are no reminders for the day, then the program will still
search the data file and only the current date will be printed to
screen. If you use the pause command in you autoexec file you will
also still need to press a key to continue.
Send any correspondence to:
Jim Johnson
P.O. Box 6352
Kennewick, Wa. 99336-0352