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Welcome to Holiday v3.1
The Days till Holiday reminder.
Written by: Robert Fonner
Copyright (c)1993 Vämpire Technologies
Dracula's Castle (305)964-2696
FidoNet 1:369/24
InterNet Robert.Fonner@f24.n369.z1.fidonet.org
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│ VAMPIRE TECHNOLOGIES has developed this program for your benefit. │
│ Although many precautions have been taken to ensure that it will │
│ not damage your equipment,(hardware, or software), in any way; │
│ no promises, guarantees, or warrantees are offered or implied. │
│ Use of this program constitutes agreement with these terms. You │
│ are hereby granted license to use this program as you see fit, │
│ but ownership is retained by VAMPIRE Technologies as per copyright │
│ laws effective in the state of Florida. Some states do not │
│ recognize retained ownership, in which case no license is offered. │
│ In those states, and/or provinces where disclaimers such as this │
│ are not held valid, this program is not to be used or retained. │
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HOLIDAY is a program that was written to show how many days are left
until any Holiday. On a specific Holiday the screen will change to a
nice ansi screen denoting that particular holiday.
NEW FOR 3.0 - We've now added the ability to include up to 13 user definable
events. You will have to make the ANSI screens for these events (or get
them from your favorite ANSI screen developer. If you prefer, you can call
Dracula's Castle and download ANSI.ZIP (which contains 121 ANSI screens for
you to play with). These 13 new events will take precedent over any other
holiday screen. If you choose to have a custom event on December 25th,
the CHRISTMAS screen will not be written.
This file is SHAREWARE. If you decide you like it and wish to continue
using it after 30 days, you are required to send $10.00 (U.S. Funds) by
check or money order to:
Robert C. Fonner, Jr.
7760 Atlanta Street
Hollywood, FL 33024-2509
This file is not crippled in any way. The only limitation is that it
will not work after December 31st, 2001. This program may be freely
distributed as long as no files have been added or removed.
REQUIREMENTS
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DOS 3.x or better.
PC XT/AT or Compatible
ANSI.SYS Loaded in your CONFIG.SYS
Color Monitor (CGA/EGA/VGA)
SETUP
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Place the HOLIDAY.EXE and the HOLIDAY.CFG files in the same
directory as your AUTOEXEC.BAT (Usually C:\). Unzip SCREENS.ZIP
into any directory you choose (I recommend C:\HDAY).
Use your favorite text editor to edit the enclosed sample
HOLIDAY.CFG file. Below is the sample config with instructions
for each line.
Line
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1 C:\HDAY Path to the HOLIDAY display files.
2 20 Screen display delay time.
3 BDAY1 Custom Display file (without extention).
4 DATE Date for Custom display #1.
5 BDAY2 Another custom display file.
6 DATE Another Date for Custom display #2.
7 BDAY3 And so on......
8 DATE
9 BDAY4
10 DATE
11 ANNIV1
12 DATE
13 ANNIV2
14 DATE
15 ANNIV3
16 DATE
17 HDAY1
18 DATE
19 HDAY2
20 DATE
21 HDAY3
22 DATE
23 HDAY4
24 DATE
25 HDAY5
26 DATE
27 HDAY6
28 DATE
*** NOTE: All 28 lines MUST exist or the program will NOT run AND may
hang your system until a human keystroke is made.
Line 1 of the config file will be the path to the sample Ansi
(*.ANS) screens (and all other files included in this package
IF different from where you put HOLIDAY.EXE & HOLIDAY.CFG).
Line 2 is the length of time you want the holiday screen displayed
before your AUTOEXEC.BAT will continue on to the next command.
The value of 20 is just right for XT Turbo class machines. A
higher number is suggested for 386/486 class machines. If the
screen goes by too fast, just increase the number on line 2 by 10
until it pauses long enough for your particular needs.
pause command to the end of the display screens.
Lines 3-28 are for customizing events you wish to include that
HOLIBBS doesn't. The ODD numbered lines (3, 5, 7, etc.) are for
filenames of .ANS files you created for a particular event
(WITHOUT the extentions of .ANS). The EVEN numbered lines (4,
6, 8, etc.) are the dates the event immediately above is
to occur. For example line 3 is BDAY1 (the name of an included
sample file), Line 4 says 11/03 (My birthday). On 11/03 of every
year the sample screen BDAY1.ANS will be used instead of the
countdown screen (and more importantly, it will override any other
holiday that might occur on that date). There are 13 possible
CUSTOMIZED events, with 13 possible CUSTOMIZED dates.
The names BDAY1, BDAY2, ANNIV1... etc. are just examples. You may
name the custom files you create any valid DOS filename. However
the extention must be .ANS (where ANS is ANSI).
IMPORTANT: The format for customizable dates must be in 4 digit
format. For example March 3rd, would be 03/03. Do NOT include
a YEAR (03/03/93). The "/" in 03/03 can be excluded or included,
it makes no difference to the way the program runs.
If NO actual DATE is given on the customizable date lines, and the
line for a DATE remains as the word DATE, then nothing will happen.
Add the command line HOLIDAY to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
Reboot your computer and viola' it's up and running.
That's all there is to it.
NOTE
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The enclosed sample .ANS files may be changed to suit your
particular taste. However, the filenames must remain exactly
the same.
Vämpire Technologies claims no rights to the enclosed sample ansi screens.