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CALENDAR displays and can write it to your w.p. version 1.0 (c) copy right 1990 All Rights Reserved Do you remember what day of the week your appointment next year was on? How can you conveniently tell your client your schedule? Were you born on a Friday or a Saturday? This lets you pop up a calendar and see last/next month/year/ decade. As long as you popped this up over a word processor in INSERT mode or OVERWRITE mode, the calendar can be copied to your w.p. by exiting the menu with <ntr> like this. (If you use WordPerfect, set key speed to REGULAR!) If there are not enough blank lines to begin with, the calendar month may print on one line! 8:38 AM <- INS key adds this line Jul 1990 <- This and below appear Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat automatically. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 PgUp/PgDn for last/next 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 month. Cursor up/dn for 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 last next year. Home/end 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 for last/next decade. 29 30 31 <esc> aborts without sending calendar to your word processor. Pressing down on BOTH the left and the right shift keys stops this so that you can enter only the time or time and date. The blank space between the "Jul 1990" has the current day if it is today and the cursor points to it. If your word processor does not accept the auto-insertion via the <ntr>, press on the space bar to exit. Keep pressing on the space bar and the calendar will be sent to your word processor. The set up of this document is as follows: Explanations of various in-line command parameters. How CALENDAR works. Chat. Prompts and messages generated by CALENDAR. Disclaimer, contribution $/address, info for sysops and shareware distributors. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ON-LINE COMMAND PARAMETERS CALENDAR parameters<ntr> explanations =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= If you simply type CALENDAR<ntr> then you get the help screen only. CALENDAR will not become memory resident. The "<ntr>" is our way of saying <CR>, ^M, ^13, <ENTER>, carriage return, <ENTER> etc which all mean the same thing. We also use <bks> for backspace, <esc> for the escape key, and "any key" to mean any function key, cursor key, letters, etc etc. There is no one key with the word "any". In case you're wondering about the wastefulness of storing such mini-helps in the program, this and many other messages stored in CALENDAR do not occupy any space when memory resident. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To run this, simply type CALENDAR RUN<ntr> and end it with an <ENTER> or <ntr> or <cr> or anything else you want to call the carriage return. This document and all documents by my group uses the "<ntr>" format. Just the letter "r" in "run" will work also. Any other command or text after the Run parameter is ignored. The Run parameter is used when you run CALENDAR without setting any other parameter. -------------------------------------------------------------- CALENDAR itself and all programs hence forth lost the self-wipe feature, the ability to wipe any and all other memory resident programs loaded after this program. (unless I start hearing otherwise) -------------------------------------------------------------- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= If you don't want to use the default altM key combination to pop up the menu, then you have a choice of a few hundred others to choose from. The allowed key combinations are function keys, cursor keys, ctrl/shift/alt with function keys, alt with letters or numbers, etc. But these are probably used by your word processor or other softwares. In that case, you can choose the combination made of pressing down on the alt key and while keeping it pressed, typing the numbers "1" through "255" on the numeric keypad to the right side of the regular keyboard. This is normally used to enter chr$(128) through chr$(255) into word processors which allow the use of extended ascii characters. To find what command parameter you need to make any of these combinations act as the new menu hot key, type CALENDAR M<ntr> This will ask you to type any valid key combination which can be used as a new menu hot key. If you press down on the altM key combination at this time, then it responds with a you need M 50,000 and if you enter the command parameter CALENDAR M50,000<ntr> then altM will act as the menu's pop up hot key combination as is the default. If you pressed down on the alt+ combination, then it tells you that you need CALENDAR M131,000<ntr> to make alt+ the menu's pop up hot key. As you can see, to make altM, alt-, control-F1 and other keys into the new menu hot key, numbers are followed by three zeros. If you pressed down on the alt key and while keeping it pressed down, you type "22" on the numeric keypad on the right side of the keyboard before letting go of the alt key, then CALENDAR M22<ntr> will make this the new hot key for the menu. CALENDAR ignores the comma "," and counts the number only. The comma is only for your sake, so CALENDAR M131000<ntr> will also make alt+ the new hot key. But CALENDAR M131 000<ntr> will not work since CALENDAR accepts the space between the "131" and "000" as the beginning of a new command parameter. CALENDAR M1310,00<ntr> will work since the location of the comma is not significant and is ignored anyway. But CALENDAR M131.000<ntr> will get CALENDAR confused since it accepts the period as the terminator of "131" and tries to process it as a new command parameter which begins with ".000" and aborts. CALENDAR M 131,000<ntr> with the space between the Menu parameter and the number is allowed because CALENDAR will search for a number as soon as it encounters the Menu parameter, but CALENDAR M131,022<ntr> is not allowed because you are asking for two separate hot keys to pop up the menu. The internal counter can count up to 4,000,000,000 but all numbers not allowed will be rejected. While the prompting parameter with CALENDAR M<ntr> only displays valid key combinations which are accepted by your computer, you can do CALENDAR M255,000<ntr> will cause CALENDAR to run with an impossible code which no standard keyboard can normally generate. If you have a special memory resident program which can do substitution, fine. If not, this will make CALENDAR run without anyway for anyone to see the calendar menu. CALENDAR RUN M131000<ntr> does not run with alt+ as the pop up hot key for the menu. It runs with the default altM key combination because everything after the Run parameter is ignored. After all, the Run parameter is only used when no other parameter is used to make this memory resident, and everything else after this is ignored. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The pop up by default will appear on the left top column and row, in other words on the column one and row one. To change the default row and column of the left top corner of the pop up menu, type CALENDAR -5 !8 The top row is set for row five and the left column is set for column eight. If only the row value exists as in CALENDAR -4 Then the top row is set for row five and the left column takes on the default value of one. Similarly, if the column value exists but no row value is given, then row value is set for one by default. The row value must be 51 or less and the column value must be 40 or less. If you set the row value for anything above 14 on a CGA (color graphic adaptor) or a monochrome adaptor equipped monitor, the pop up menu will not appear properly. This excessively large value is only useful if you use an EGA, VGA or higher video cards. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= If you have a color monitor, or at least a monochrome/amber monitor, you can try a pop up other than the default white letter on black background. Of course, even with a green phosphor black/white monitor, you can try this to avoid screen burn outs. CALENDAR A7<ntr> This sets the screen for white letter on black background. Of course, on amber monitor, it appears as amber. On green monitors, there are only a few useful values (A7, A112) with the rest appearing as vertically striated characters. On laptops, the screen color dictates how it will appear. To change the color on a color monitor to blue letters on black, type CALENDAR A1 The values are the following for letter colors. To get the color for the background, multiply by 16 and add to the letter color value. 0 black 8 gray 1 blue 9 light blue 2 green 10 light green 3 cyan 11 light cyan 4 red 12 light red 5 magenta 13 light magenta 6 brown 14 yellow 7 white 15 bright white For example, to get blue letters on green background, use CALENDAR A33<ntr> since green background is 2 * 16 and blue letter is 1. ( 2 * 16 + 1 = 33 ) On IBM color monitors, the distinction is clear. On older NEC MultiSync and similar monitors, the intensity control has to be kept above a certain threshold before they become distinct. On monochrome, the white letter on black background default is recommended. Many combinations produce non-displaying characters. If you have Hercules' RAM Font or IBM EGA/VGA with expanded character set beyond 256, then this may produce unusual effects with the font displayed reflecting the color combinations. Be careful if you have these cards: Changing the color table in EGA/VGA can affect the way the display looks. The reason why this is called an "A"ttribute, rather than a "C"olor parameter is because on non-color monitors, this controls whether the letter is regular, high-intensity, reverse, blinking etc. And none of these are in color. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= If you can make an ascii file with a few months of a calendar, it can printed with your word processor in any size your printer allows. But if your simple word processor is more like an editor when it comes to selecting fonts, then a built-in feature for EPSON printer can set the printer for a few fonts: Superscript, italic, wide, condensed, elite and pica. These are options available on an EPSON LQ printer. On IBM printers, the italic are replaced by the extended ascii. The elite and pica are not available on earlier MX printers. The variable line spacing of #/180" is an LQ feature. Many others have #/216". CALENDAR P<ntr> This will display the print menu. Type the letter before the features and the proper printer coding is sent to your printer. <esc> aborts. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= HOW CALENDAR WORKS =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= PREFACE: This is a gregorian calendar, a revised Julian calendar which originated in 1582 to correct the displaced vernal equinox. This calendar was adapted in Britain and North America in 1752. Hence dates generated by this program prior to these dates may be misdated by as much as 10 days when compared to the older pre-gregorian calendars. Of course, North Americans who slept on that fateful night in 1752 slept for "10" days. That's 200 winks. To run CALENDAR, type from the DOS prompt CALENDAR RUN<ntr> The first thing CALENDAR does is to check to see if another copy of CALENDAR is already in memory or not. The program will abort if it is already in memory. As long as the parameters are alright, they are set and the program become memory resident. Type the altM key combination (or anything else you chose) to pop up the calendar. The calendar menu points to the present month as set by your clock. How type -------- ------------------------------------------------- |<esc> | |<ntr> |Home | cursor up | page up | |aborts| |send to wp|last decade| last year | last month| -------- ================================================= |End | cursor down| page down | |next decade| next year | next month| -------------------------------------- |INS | |Inserts time| -------------- The F1 key has the help you need. If you want to abort as with <esc> and don't want to send the calendar to your word processor, but you want to see the calendar and type your text based on what you see on the calendar, then type the letter "K" to keep the calendar on screen and go back to your word processor. In this mode, the calendar is only left on your screen. It is not sent to your word processor so that as soon as you scroll the text up/down or display a help menu,(your w.p.'s, not SHELLP.EXE and other pop ups) the calendar month will be wiped out. To send the calendar month to your word processor, type <ntr>. If your word processor or a memory resident program has a key speed up option, turn them OFF. This program may interfere with some other macro key programs you have. If you want to send the calendar month to your word processor, your word processor had to be in insert mode or overwrite mode or other typeable mode. If it was in command mode, help mode or other non-typing modes, then your word processor will act wildly. To abort the calendar month being sent to your word processor, you can press down on BOTH the left and the right shift keys. The month is designed to take about 20 - 25 seconds to appear, irregardless of your computer, so that you can abort after the time or the time and the date are sent to your word processor. You don't like this slowness? Tell us. Or if you prefer French, etc, or other than month-day-year format as well. Typing the pop up menu hot key is also designed to stop this, but they you will have to get out of the menu with this method. As you can see, after each line is sent to your software, a set of left cursors followed by one down cursor is sent to move to the next line. As a result, if your software did not have blank lines, then everything may be sent to just one line on your screen. While the text is sent to your software, the keyboard is active. If you type anything inbetween, it will interfere with the calendar month sent to your software. The month is padded with spaces to the right so that you can connect two months next to each other. Combined with a regular printer, you can make a typical calendar. With a dot matrix printer set for tiny superscript or subscript, you can make a set of calendar months suitable for attaching to your watch or photocopied onto a letter head. Combined with a laser printer and a large font set, you can make large calendars as well. The parameter P allows some EPSON settings to be set. To move the menu itself to the right, first press down on the scroll lock key. On AT-type keyboards and PS/2 keyboards, the appropriate light will light up. Now press down on the right cursor key and the menu will move right. Similarly, the left, up and down cursor keys will move the menu around on the screen. Type Home to move the menu back to the top left corner. Type End to move the menu to row 15 left, which corresponds to the bottom left corner on a 25 rows screen. If your word processor's key speed/macro or other macro key softwares you have still interfere and prevents you from sending the calendar month to your word processor, then exit the menu using the space bar instead. If you exit the menu with the space bar, the menu will disappear as before, but as long as you keep pressing down CONTINUOUSLY on the space bar, the calendar month will be sent to your word processor. This mode turns off as soon as (1) the complete month is sent to your w.p., or (2) you type any key other than the space bar, or (3) you type the pop up menu's hot key. If your word processor is not in a mode which allows text to be typed, then this will not work. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= CHAT in a HAT I've seen so many magazines (even computer mags) whose PC writer don't know much about computers that instead of just complaining to them, I applied to the mags as a writer. I'll be rejected because I'm not a writer, but at least you can't say that I didn't try to correct wrongs. No wonder the Europeans are calling U.S. the "sunset" nation; its own people are spreading misinformation more efficiently than the Russians can. How efficient was Canada Post? The one in Montreal had bag shake out machines: They take cargoes of parcels and drop them about 6 feet to solid steel platforms. When a person commented that they were destroying the parcels, the tour guide, a manager, just gave the person a dirty look, while parcel packing materials fly by. The conveyor belts only drop them 4 - 5 feet after that to finish the job. As the land of the rising sun rises in esteem, many books and articles are published on it. There is one thing which is often not stressed, though: Except for the former U.S. ambassador's book on the subject, many are written by some fella who lived there for a year (or even a few months). If I stay in Hawaii for a month, can I write a book saying that all Americans wear bathing suits or trunks, and aside from the hotel bell boys, all Americans are basking in the sun and hence no one works? P.S. There are real Americans who go to Canada in mid-summer wearing winter clothing and sweating in the 95F heat. Their explanation? "But, this is Canada!". The moral? Don't believe everything you read. Hmmm. May be you can't believe me either? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= PROMPTS AND MESSAGES =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-= Unknown parameter found on the command line =-=-= Something not recognized was found on the line when you ran the program. If you ran this program from a batch command file, error messages are followed by errorlevel = 1 so that you can have your batch file take appropriate actions. Although CALENDAR.EXE is forgiving to sticking some parameters next to each other without any separators, try putting spaces inbetween. =-=-= You don't have to do it, CALENDAR is already in memory =-=-= You tried to run CALENDAR when a copy was already in memory. =-=-= Attribute values A1 - A255 are the only values allowed =-=-= You tried to enter an attribute (color, if you have a color monitor) other than that allowed. A112 gives black on white. A1 on a color monitor gives blue on black, A2 gives blue on black (the black background looks like dark green on some monitors) etc. =-=-= Initial top row value of menu can be 1 - 51 only =-=-= You tried to set the top row of the pop up menu at outside of the range of 1 - 51. Default is 1 for display on the top most row on your screen. If you use any value higher than 14 on a 25 rows screen, then you cannot see the calendar. The only reason why this large a value exists is for people who have EGA/VGA or higher rows monitor. =-=-= Initial left column value of menu can be 1 - 33 only =-=-= As with the row. If you may pop up the menu on a 40 columns screen, do not make the value anything but 1. =-=-= I need a number between M1 - M255,000 as the menu hot key: M1 - M255 for alt numeric keypad 1 - 255 acting as hot key, M1,000 - M255,000 (1/10/100\'s places must be 0) for others, such as alt=, ^F1 or Shift-F10 as the menu hot key, See the document for detail. =-=-= =-=-= Alt numeric keypad values 1 - 255 is the limit =-=-= You did not use the built-in feature to select a proper pop up hot key or did not type it correctly on the command line. =-=-= Only alt numeric keypad OR regular key combinations can be a menu hot key, not both. =-=-= You did not use the built-in feature to select a proper pop up hot key or did not type it correctly on the command line. =-=-= Key combinations can only be 1 - 255 =-=-= As with the two cases above. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= All products and names mentioned are Trademarks or Registered Trademarks of their respective corporations or companies. That includes my group or any other group's programs, of course. Some products may have patent protections as well. All enclosed programs, documents and other files are provided AS IS, without any warranty, expressed or implied, including but not limited to fitness for a particular purpose. A contribution of $10 US/Canadian is appreciated if you find this useful, or $20 for an improved one as it comes out. ($20 Cdn if you're in Canada and $20 U.S. for U.S & others,) Unless you specify otherwise, you will get a 5-1/4" 360 kb diskette. And if you only specify 3-1/2", it will be formatted as 360kb/720kb on a 720kb or a 1.44Mb drive. NAME OF THE PROGRAM: CALENDAR ($10-$20) PURPOSE OF THIS PROGRAM: Pops up a calendar month and see the previous/next month, year or decade. Sends the month which you see to your word processor underneath the pop up. my OLD forwarding address was Dr. Masaaki Sawada University of Waterloo, Faculty of Science Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2L 3G1 Please. 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