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- QUICK REFERENCE FOR REMINDER 1.10
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- Reminder and ReminderCheck are (C) 1993 Matti Rintala
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- 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.
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- General
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-
- 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.
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- Reminder
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- Day-gadget:
- Day of month of your event. If left empty, means 'any
- day'.
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- 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'.
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- 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:
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- Weekday Day Month Year Explanation
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- 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
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- Text-gadget:
- Text describing your event. Max 80 chars.
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- 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.
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- Grouped-gadget:
- If checked, this event may be put in single requester
- with all other grouped events on the day it is due.
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- 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.
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- Comm/Script-gadget:
- Contains ARexx command/script associated with the
- eveent. See above.
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- Port-gadget:
- ARexx port to which the ARexx command associated with
- the event is sent. See above.
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- New-gadget:
- Reset event gadgets to initial values.
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- Add-gadget:
- Add event to database.
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- Remove-gadget:
- Remove gadget from database.
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- Update-gadget:
- Replace selected event with event in date gadgets.
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- Quit, no save -gadget:
- Quit and save -gadget:
- Self-explanatory. Window close gadget works also.
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- Keyboard shortcuts:
- Underlined keys. 0-7 for weekdays. Cursor up and down
- for event selection.
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- Icon tooltype or command line argument:
- FILE=filename
- Defines the name of the database file. Default:
- S:Reminder.data.
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- ReminderCheck
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- Go away! -gadget:
- Closes event requester, event not acknowledged (will
- be reminded about on the next time also).
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- Acknowledge-gadget:
- Closes event requester, event acknowledged. You won't
- be reminded about the same date again.
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- Quit-gadget:
- Terminate program immediately.
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- Keyboard shortcuts:
- Underlined keys. ENTER = Go away!, ESC = Quit.
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- 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.
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- NOAREXX
- Causes ReminderCheck not to open RexxSysLib.library
- nor to do anything with ARexx.
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- MAXGROUP=no of events
- Maximum number of events in one grouped requester.
- Should be small enough so that the requester fits the
- screen.
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- DONOTWAIT
- Should be icon tooltype if used in SYS:WBStartup.
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