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-=-=-=-=-=-=>Date Check v1.1<=-=-=-=-=-=-
Written by Robert Adamczyk
Copyright 1992 By Robert Adamczyk
*****************************************************************
The author of this program assumes no responsibility
whatsoever for any problems or destruction this program may
cause. By using this program, you release the author from any
and all responsibility for the actions of this program.
This program is released to the public domain. Feel free to
distribute this to anyone you want as long as no fee is charged
and the program is not modified in any way.
Any comments/questions/suggestions about this program should be
sent to the address at the end of this file.
*****************************************************************
Do you have as much problems remembering important dates
like birthdays and anniversaries as I do? If so, this program is
for you. If you put just a few extra lines in your autoexec.bat
file and boot up your computer at least once a week, you will
never have to worry about forgetting those important dates again.
This is not a TSR!!! You don't have to worry about this
program causing you memory problems while running other
applications because after you boot your machine, this is no
longer in memory.
Before you run this program for the first time, there will
not be a data file. The data file is created the first time this
program is run. If you ever want to wipe the entire data file
clean, just delete the file DATECHK.DAT.
This program allows you to enter important dates and a
description into the data file using the /c command line
parameter. (In english that means type DATECHK /c at the DOS
prompt) After you have the dates you want to be reminded of in
the data file you need to edit your autoexec.bat file using your
favorite text editor. Add to the end of the file the following
lines:
cd c:\datechk
call datechk
cd c:\
It is not absolutely necessary for this program to be in its
own directory. It can be located anywhere you like. Just make
sure that the current directory when you run it is also where the
data file is located (DATECHK.DAT).
Any maintenance you need to do to the data file should be
done by running DATECHK /c. This should take care of ANY
maintenance you need to do. It's menu driven and fairly easy to
understand. At the main menu you may select options by either
clicking on them with the left mouse button, highlighting them
with the arrow keys and pressing enter, or simply pressing the
first letter of the option name.
When entering dates into the data file, you are only asked
for the month and day. The reason you are not asked for a year
is because this was written to remind you of events that happen
every year. If you needed to remember somebodies birthday it
would be pretty worthless to only remind you when the actual date
they were born rolls around. This program was written assuming
that time will continue to flow in a forward direction which
means that a persons date of birth will only happen once (as if
you couldn't figure that out yourself).
When datechk is run (normally in your autoexec.bat file) it
checks all the dates in the data file against the current system
date. If any of the events listed in the data file are within 10
days of happening, a notice is displayed on your screen telling
you not to forget about the event on whatever day it is going to
happen. If none of the dates in your data file are within 10
days of happening, the program does nothing. You shouldn't even
know it's there.
The amount of events you can put in the data file is up to
you. The actual amount of events possible will probably be
limited by your disk space before it is limited by the program.
It is possible to store a little over 2 Billion events in the
data file. I seriously doubt anyone needs to remember that many
dates. I suggest keeping it to about 20 or less. Remember that
the more events you have listed, the longer it will take to check
them all, and the longer it will take for your system to boot.
Currently, there is nothing to keep the events from
scrolling off the screen. This means that if you have more than
about 20 events in your data file, first few will scroll off the
screen. I didn't put a routine in it to stop this because this
is an extra incentive for you to keep the data file smaller than
about 20 records.
That's about all the info about this program I have for now.
If you have any comments/suggestions for this program, please
send them to:
Robert Adamczyk
2001 Columbia Pike, Appt 507
Arlington, Va 22204
Or call The Twisted Platypus BBS at (703)892-9010 and leave a
comment to the SysOp. I've made about all the improvements to
this program that I can think of so if you come up with an idea,
please let me know. There is currently no registration fee for
this program but dontations will of course be accepted.
(Even a single buck tells me that at least someone is getting
some use out of this thing <grin>)