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- Date: 01-17-1991 Time: 21:30:00
-
-
- PERSONAL CALENDAR (PC) FOR DOS Version 14.20
- FILE README.DOC
-
- Introductory Information -- Executable Program
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Copyright 1985-1991 by Paul Munoz-Colman. All rights reserved.
-
-
- ┌─────────┐
- ┌─────┴───┐ │ (R)
- ──│ │o │──────────────────
- │ ┌─────┴╨──┐ │ Association of
- │ │ │─┘ Shareware
- └───│ o │ Professionals
- ──────│ ║ │────────────────────
- └────╨────┘ MEMBER
-
-
- ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Paul Muñoz─Colman │ Phone: (703) 435─1110 (home) │
- │ 11645 Charter Oak Ct., #201 │ 487─8658 (office) │
- │ Reston, VA 22090─4526 │ 71141,1224 CompuServe or PCMagNet │
- └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
-
- INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION
-
-
- Hello!
-
- Personal Calendar (PC) is a popular, and useful program which I have worked on
- since early 1985. PC displays a three-month scrollable calendar, a running
- analog and digital clock, and a time-oriented event list and a text note list,
- each 300 in capacity. A modifiable historical tracking is made of events and
- notes, all printable. Warnings and alarms tell when something is pending or
- overdue.
-
- Driven by a simple flexible menu interface, Personal Calendar can be a TSR (pop
- up program) or not, as you choose; TSR use interrupts you at the earliest
- event. As a TSR, an extremely small 6K byte kernel remains in DOS memory, with
- the balance swapped to EMS or disk. TSR programming is extremely stable and
- environment-sensitive.
-
-
- PACKAGING
-
- The program on this diskette or Bulletin Board System (BBS) download is
- contained on an authenticated compressed archive file. The file is in one of
- two forms: either a self-extracting archive or a normal archive file. This
- archive was created with PKWARE's Shareware ZIP compression software, version
- 1.10. The file is named as follows --
-
- PCnnnn.EXE - Self-extracting ZIP file [diskette version]
- or PCnnnn.ZIP - Normal ZIP file (you need PKUNZIP to extract) [BBS version]
-
- "nnnn" is the version number (i.e. PC1420.EXE is the self-extracting archive
- for Personal Calendar Version 14.20). There is no difference in the file
- content of the two formats; just in the way you extract information from them.
-
-
- EXTRACT PROCESS
-
- To extract this program (either new or as an update), just type the name of the
- self-extracting .EXE file, including the correct version number. If you have
- the .ZIP file, use PKUNZIP instead. Examples for the self-extracting .EXE
- file:
-
- PC1420 Extracts to your current directory
- or PC1420 d:\path Extracts to drive and subdirectory "d:\path"
- or a:PC1420 Extracts from a floppy to your current drive
- or PC1420 /h Help with PKWARE's self-extracting file program
-
- Examples for the .ZIP file (note that you must obtain your own version of
- PKUNZIP from your favorite Shareware supplier):
-
- PKUNZIP PC1420 Extracts to your current directory
- or PKUNZIP PC1420 d:\path Extracts to drive and subdirectory "d:\path"
- or PKUNZIP a:PC1420 Extracts from a floppy to your current drive
- or PKUNZIP /h Help with PKWARE's PKUNZIP program
-
-
- INSTALLATION FILES
-
- See PACKING.LST for a list of the files which are extracted, and the purpose of
- each. When you extract Personal Calendar, each of the files in PACKING.LST
- will be extracted and written to the drive and directory you specified above.
-
-
- REGISTRATION FILE WITH SERIAL NUMBER
-
- If you have mailed in your license fee in accordance with the instructions in
- file REGISTER.DOC, the file CALSER.DAT has been supplied to you on a diskette.
-
- To enable the registered version of Personal Calendar, simply copy CALSER.DAT
- from the diskette to the directory in which you have installed the program file
- CAL.EXE.
-
- DO NOT modify the contents of CALSER.DAT, as doing so will invalidate the
- registration data it contains.
-
-
- UPDATE PROCEDURE
-
- If you already have an older version of Personal Calendar in the directory to
- which you are writing, you will receive messages from PKSFX or PKUNZIP of the
- following type:
-
- PKSFX (R) FAST! Self Extract Utility Version 1.1 03-15-90
- Copr. 1989-1990 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved. PKSFX/h for help
- PKSFX Reg. U.S. Pat. and Tm. Off.
-
- Searching EXE: C:/PC1420.EXE - Personal Calendar (Executable), Version 14.20
- PKSFX: Warning! file: CAL.EXE already exists. Overwrite (y/n)? y
- Exploding: CAL.EXE -AV
-
- Just answer "y" for each file for which the message appears, and the old
- version will be replaced by the new one. After extracting the files, you may
- delete the PCnnnn.EXE or PCnnnn.ZIP file, if you wish. However, if you give PC
- to someone or upload it to a BBS, you *must* give the original PCnnnn.EXE or
- .ZIP file only.
-
- If your copy of Personal Calendar has been registered, this update process will
- not change that registration; make sure your CALSER.DAT file stays in PC's
- directory.
-
-
- CLEANUP
-
- After extracting the files, and after you're satisfied that PC is working to
- your satisfaction, you may delete any old PCnnnn.EXE or PCnnnn.ZIP files. You
- should ALWAYS keep the current PCnnnn.EXE/.ZIP archive file.
-
-
- PROGRAM OPERATION
-
- If under DOS 2.x, Personal Calendar's installation directory must be the
- current directory. If under DOS 3 or later, PC may be run from any directory.
- To run PC, at the DOS prompt, type --
-
- CAL (if under DOS 2.x)
- or
- [d:][\path\]CAL (if under DOS 3 or later)
-
-
- DOCUMENTATION
-
- The Help Text in the program IS the users manual for Personal Calendar, and may
- be consulted at any time from within the program by pressing F5 (function key
- 5), or by selecting "Help" from the Main Menu. Additionally, you may also
- print the Help Text from within the program.
-
- New features in recent versions of Personal Calendar are documented in the
- HISTORY.DOC file, which may be printed from DOS with the PRINT command.
-
-
- DISTRIBUTION POLICY
-
- Personal Calendar may be distributed under the terms of the "Trial-Use and
- Limited Distribution License" contained in file LICENSE.DOC. BBS SysOps please
- consult file SYSOP.DOC for my policy on distribution of Personal Calendar by
- BBS. Disk Vendors and user groups please consult file VENDOR.DOC.
-
- You may not distribute the CALSER.DAT registration file to anyone not covered
- by your software license. Personal Calendar source code is available only to
- registered users of the program, and then by further registration.
-
-
- REGISTRATION PAYMENT AND EVALUATION PERIOD
-
- You may try Personal Calendar for a 30-day period on an evaluation basis at no
- charge. If you like the program and wish to keep it, you must pay the $35
- license fee plus shipping and applicable tax, returning the ORDER FORM and
- SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT according to the instructions in REGISTER.DOC. Note
- that the source code is licensed for an additional $35, only upon licensing of
- the executable program.
-
- Be sure to specify 5-1/4" or 3-1/2" diskettes. The program diskette which I
- send you will contain your personal validation file CALSER.DAT to enable the
- registered mode for this and all future versions.
-
-
- IMPLEMENTATION
-
- PC is written in Microsoft Professional Development System (PDS) BASIC 7.10
- (the BC command-line compiler, not the QuickBASIC Extended (QBX) environment),
- and uses the following MicroHelp support packages:
-
- . Stay-Res Plus (version 4.00),
- . Mach2 (version 2.51),
- . QB/Pro 1-4 (version 1.50),
- . QB/Pro 7 (version 1.10),
- . Toolbox 2 (version 1.10)
-
- All of the MicroHelp libraries are BC 7-compatible. The program is bound by
- segmented-executable LINK version 5.10.
-
-
- IN CLOSING
-
- Enjoy Personal Calendar! I welcome discussion of my program or any related
- topic, if you are interested. If you wish the source code, you can order it
- from me as file PSnnnn.ZIP when you register.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Paul Muñoz-Colman Phone numbers:
- 11645 Charter Oak Ct., #201 (703) 435-1110 -- home
- Reston, VA 22090-4526 (703) 487-8658 -- office
-
- or 71141,1224 on CompuServe (IBMSYS and MSLANG forums)
- on PCMagNet (UTILFORUM)
-
- or on the following EXCELLENT bulletin boards --
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- THE ELUSIVE DIAMOND THE VOR & MOTHERBOARD BBSs
- (703) 323-6423 & -1782 (707) 778-8944 & -8841
- Gregg Snyder, SysOp Vern & Julie Buerg, SysOps
-
- THE BREAK EAST BBS (The phone number of the new
- (703) 680-9269 BREAK WEST will be published when
- Bruce Jackson, SysOp available, Jim Thompson, SysOp)
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Leave a message for me, if you wish. I make a point of placing recent and
- major upgrades on these boards, and when released, they are available there for
- download.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ │
- │ PLEASE NOTE! You can be SURE that you have received an authentic copy │
- │ of Personal Calendar ONLY if the following message appears after │
- │ extracting any, every, and all files from this archive. Please contact │
- │ me if the authentication signature does not occur! (Version 1.10 or │
- │ later of PKUNZIP is required to reveal the authentication data; this is │
- │ automatic for a self-extracting archive.) │
- │ │
- │ ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │
- │ │
- │ Exploding: CAL.EXE -AV <-- "-AV" appears on EVERY file │
- │ │
- │ Authentic files Verified! # NPU161 Paul Munoz-Colman │
- │ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- The contents of this archive are as follows (note the size and CRC-32 value on
- file README.DOC will not be correct):
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- PKZIP (R) FAST! Create/Update Utility Version 1.1 03-15-90
- Copr. 1989-1990 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved. PKZIP/h for help
- PKZIP Reg. U.S. Pat. and Tm. Off.
-
- Searching ZIP: PC1420.ZIP - Personal Calendar (Executable), Version 14.20
-
- Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
- ------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- ------ ---- ----
- 114022 Stored 114022 0% 01-17-91 21:30 031683f5 --w CAL.EXE
- 21200 Implode 3582 84% 01-17-91 21:30 38afaef9 --w CALERROR.DAT
- 83040 Implode 22360 74% 01-17-91 21:30 0a001e5c --w CALHELP.DAT
- 4869 Implode 1924 61% 01-17-91 21:30 f86d4d1d --w CALINIT.DAT
- 3740 Implode 1446 62% 01-17-91 21:30 0b17673e --w CALNAMES.DAT
- 12 Stored 12 0% 01-17-91 21:30 3560c47a --w CALPOPUP.COM
- 293 Shrunk 274 7% 01-17-91 21:30 e5c8706a --w CALREMOV.COM
- 14088 Implode 5677 60% 01-17-91 21:30 cb0220d1 --w HISTORY.DOC
- 8533 Implode 3238 63% 01-17-91 21:30 9d898300 --w REGISTER.DOC
- 20963 Implode 7680 64% 01-17-91 21:30 12e45537 --w LICENSE.DOC
- 4562 Implode 2077 55% 01-17-91 21:30 70c23c65 --w SITELICE.DOC
- 4663 Implode 2207 53% 01-17-91 21:30 5fd485cf --w WARRANTY.DOC
- 5616 Implode 2748 52% 01-17-91 21:30 a8c5d30a --w SYSOP.DOC
- 14275 Implode 5642 61% 01-17-91 21:30 9f512bcd --w VENDOR.DOC
- 18837 Implode 7908 59% 01-17-91 21:30 265d30aa --w SHARWARE.DOC
- 3072 Implode 1408 55% 01-17-91 21:30 6980adc0 --w PACKING.LST
- 12945 Implode 5080 61% 01-17-91 21:30 ae2b7fa8 --w README.DOC
- ------ ------ --- -------
- 334730 187285 45% 17