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1. LICENCE AGREEMENT
JCAL is Freeware. You may freely use or distribute it as you see fit,
subject to the following conditions:
- You may not charge a fee for using or distributing JCAL, except to
cover the cost of media and copying.
- All the files in the original distribution package are distributed
together, and in their original, unmodified form. You may repack the
archive if you wish, as long as you include all the files. A complete
file list appears in this document in section 3, "File List".
These are not unreasonable conditions. In fact, these are pretty
standard for most Freeware and Public Domain software.
JCAL and all associated files remain the property of the author, as
identified in this document. Your licence to use or distribute the
software does not imply ownership on you. This paragraph applies to all
the files included in the original distribution package, but excludes the
output file produced by JCAL.
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2. DISCLAIMER
Possession and use of JCAL is entirely at your own risk. The author
will not be held responsible for any damage or loss incurred as a result
of the use, misuse or inability to use the software. JCAL has been
carefully tested, with no strange behaviour reported. No deliberately
destructive code has been used.
If you do not agree with the above paragraph, you should remove any
files associated with JCAL, including the distribution package, from your
computer system.
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3. FILE LIST
The following files should be included in the distribution package. If
any are missing, please report the problem to the administrator of the
system from which you obtained it, and obtain a new copy from a more
reliable source.
CALTEXT LIS
DESC SDI
FILE_ID DIZ
GETOPT C
JCAL EXE
JCAL C
SCBBS COM
SCIENCE COM
JCAL DOC
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4. HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
It Will work on any IBM combatable system. :-)
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5. WHAT IS JCAL ?
JCAL. Produces a calander for the current system date.
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6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Not all the work that went into this project is my own. My special
thanks go to the following:
Jonathan R Hudson, c/o SCBBS
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JCAL.EXE
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Synopsis
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JCAL. Produces a calander for the current system date.
Usage
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JCAL [-b bgcol] [-f fgcol] [-x bricol] [-p prolog] [-e epilog] [events_file]
where:
bgcol is the background colour, default is 7 (grey)
fgcol is the foreground colour, default is 0 (black)
bricol is the colour for today's date, default is 1 (red)
this is in bold.
prolog is soome arbitary text displayed before the calander
epilog is soome arbitary text displayed after the calander
events_file is a file containing a list of today's events; if
this file is missing, no events are displayed.
The output of the program may be directed to a file using the standard
redirection (>) symbol.
e.g
C:\> JCAL >C:\Wildcat\Disp\Hello5.BBS
would write the calander to the file TODAY.CAL.
If the 'prolog' or 'epilogue' text contains spaces, it must be
enclosed in quotes.
e.g.
C:\> JCAL -p @CLS@ -e "@PAUSE@ @BEEP@" >C:\Wildcat\Bull\Bull50.BBS
Example
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If a file caltext.lis exists, containing the following lines:
This is the jcal.exe calander program
produced for Science Club BBS by Ahmed Al-Kalbani
then the command:
C:\> JCAL >TODAY.CAL CALTEXT.LIS
would print the calander with a two line "Today's Event" box.
the output would be:
==================================
| January 1996 |
|----------------------------------|
| Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa |
|----------------------------------|
| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
|----------------------------------|
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
|----------------------------------|
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
|----------------------------------|
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
|----------------------------------|
| 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | | | |
==================================
Today's Events
====================================================
| This is the jcal.exe calander program |
| produced for Science Club BBS by Ahmed Al-Kalbani |
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Bugs
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The program will only work reliably between 00:00:00 on 1st January
1970 and 07:14:07 on Tuesday, 19th January 2038. The author does not
consider this a serious problem and has no intention to fix it.
1/1/96 version 0.00
2/1/96 version 0.01
3/1/96 version 0.02 (getting there)
12. CONTACTING THE AUTHOR
Science Club BBS
+968 593728 28800 USR Sposter Node#1
+968 593729 14400 USR Sposter Node#2
My Address Ahmed Al-Kalbani
P.O Box 463, 118
Al-Harthy Complex
Sultante Of Oman
If you have any questions or comments about JCAL, please send them to
me at the above addresses. I respond to everything I receive. If you don't
get a response after a reasonable amount of time, try again, perhaps using
one of the alternate addresses, in case something happened to your
original message.
I will also endeavour to keep anyone who contacts me informed about the
current progress of newer versions of JCAL.
If you like JCAL and continue to use it, I would appreciate a postcard
sent to the above address. This is a request, not a requirement.
You can't imagine how much of an ego boost it is for me to receive
postcards, and they look really cool all stuck up on my wall.
Thanks for giving my software a try. Thanks also for reading this
document. (This doesn't apply if you were lazy and skipped to the bottom
without reading it just to see if there was a bonus :-) )
Ahmed AL-Kalbani
Jan 1996
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