\pard\tx960\tx1920\tx2880\tx3840\tx4800\tx5760\tx6720\tx7680\tx8640\tx9600\f1\b\i0\ul0\fs36 Cassandra: An Interactive Event Scheduler\
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\b0\fs24 (For DETAILED help, see the REAL manual)\
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\fs36 The Main Menu Hierarchy:\
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\fs32 Info...
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\b0\fs24 Gives info about the program, its development and \
future. It also contains Copyright and distribution\
regulations.\
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\fs32 Edit
\b0\fs24 The standard Edit functions cut/paste/etc.\
You can't cut/paste events (yet)\
\b\fs32 Font
\b0\fs24 You can change the font styles in the following windows:\
Notepad and Event Log. You can also cut and paste\
documents with fonts in and out of these windows.\
\b\fs32 Text
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\b0 Usual fooling around with alignments, centering,\
rulers, etc. Only works in the Notepad and Event Log.\
\b\fs32 Print...
\b0\fs24 Print current window as best you can.\
\b\fs32 Windows >
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\fs32 Overview
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\b0\fs24 This calls up the main overview. It shows the \
date and time and gives a small calendar of\
this month, last month and next month. \
You can move the months back and forth by clicking on the left or right one, respectively. \
To get back to the current month, hit the center\
one.\
\i Note: The updating of the clock on the\
overview uses up the system a bit. \
To conserve space and cpu time,\
close the Overview or hide Cassandra when \
you are not using it.\
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\b\fs32 Today
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\b0\fs24 This shows all of the events and reminders \
for today and tomorrow.\
\b\fs32 Week Overview\
\b0\fs24 This shows a simple notice of a whole\
week's worth of events and reminders. You\
can choose which level of events to view\
by using the small popup to the top-right.\
You can flip weeks back and forth using the\
arrow buttons. Hitting the date in the middle\
will return it to the current week.\
\i Power-Users Tool: Holding the Alternate key\
down while hitting the arrowed buttons will\
cause the overview to scroll day-by-day\
rather than week-by-week.
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\fs32 Event Log\
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\b0\fs24 This will bring up window containing a log of\
all the past events that had a high enough \
priority to be recorded.\
(See below on priority)\
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Notepad\
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\b0\fs24 This brings up a small window in which you \
can jot notes, paste information and other \
things. Its contents can be saved between \
sessions.\
\b\fs32 Close\
\b0\fs24 This will close the current window.\
\b\fs32 Miniaturize\
\b0\fs24 This miniaturizes the current window.
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\fs32 Modify Events >\
Add Event\
\b0\fs24 This brings up a panel that lets you easily add\
an event into the queue. Things should be fairly\
self -explanatory, but see the section below for\
details.\
\b\fs32 Reset Next Event\
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\b0\fs24 This resets the next event (depending on the\
anniversary setting you have set, it will either\
delete it or reset it in the future). \
Use this if you do not want the next event \
alarm to go off. Check the manual for details.\
\b\fs32 Event Editor\
\b0\fs24 This is a medium-level event editor that lets \
you look at and modify events. See the manual \
for more info.\
\b\fs32 Preferences...\
\b0\fs24 Lets you set your preferences as you like \
(or dislike) them.\
The
\i default alarm sound
\i0 lets you pick your \
favorite default sound when placing events. \
You can also select the volume of the alarm, \
whether you want it playing at a specific \
volume or at the system volume level.\
Pick the background of your choice for your\
clock by choosing a clockface out of the \
display of clockfaces. You can also\
add the date onto your favorite clockface.\
You can also pick a digital clockface and\
choose to have event info on it.\
You can also elect whether or not to have \
ticking seconds on the clockface icon and the\
Overview display by clicking on the
\i Show
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\i Seconds
\i0 button.\
The
\i Open ..... On Launch
\i0 buttons allow you\
to choose whether or not to open certain\
windows at startup time. \
Some people prefer military/european/24hr\
time to am/pm time. Use the
\i Military Time
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button to change this.\
\i Compress Events
\i0 will reduce the size of your\
saved event file at the expense of some time \
loss at startup and finish. \
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\fs32 Help...\
\b0\fs24 This menu. \
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Hide...\
\b0\fs24 Hide Cassandra. This stops the screen \
updating and thus helps conserve cpu usage. \
The event detector is still left on and will \
awaken itself at the proper time. \
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\fs32 Quit\
\b0\fs24 Quit Cassandra. Thank you for using this \
program. \
I hope you find it useful and encourage you to \
register your version with the author (me!). \
See the last page of the manual for details.
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\fs36 The Add Event Panel\
\fs32 Date/time, am/pm and radio buttons\
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\b0\fs24 Chose the date and time for the event. You can type\
it in manually or you can use the radio buttons and the\
up and down buttons to flip to it.\
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\b0\fs24 The day should be a number from 1-31.\
The month should be either a number 1-12 or the month \
in letters: "January" or "nov," etc.\
The year should either be the full year 1989\
or abbreviated 89. \
Guide to abbreviating years:\
0-69 mean the years 2000 to 2069\
70-99 mean the years 1970 to 1999.\
100 onwards means the year 100 and on.\
When typing in the time manually, you \
can add an 'a' or 'p' to the end of the hour as a shorthand\
way of specifying am or pm. This features is not\
available if you are using military time. \
Guide to abbreviations:\
Hour = 7 means 7 o'clock am or pm \
depending on the\
am/pm button\
Hour = 7a means 7 o'clock am \
regardless of the button\
Hour = 7p means 7 o'clock pm \
regardless of the button\
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\fs32 Anniversary:\
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\b0\fs24 Anniversary events are events that happen every so\
often, like birthdays, board meetings, etc.\
By selecting Anniversary, you can make the\
events automatically re-occur over an interval.\
For example, if you check the Weekly button,\
the event will repeat itself every week. By changing the Once Every # form, you can change the interval\
between reoccurences.\
See below for examples or the manual for details.\
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\fs32 Great settings are:\
\b0\fs24 Daily Alarm Clock:\
Anniversary: Once every _1_ day\
Weekly Events:\
Anniversary: Once every _1_ week\
Bimonthly Events:\
Anniversary: Once every _2_ weeks\
Every month:\
Anniversary: Once every _1_ month\
Twice a year:\
Anniversary: Once every _6_ months\
Birthday's/Anniversaries:\
Anniversary: Once every _1_ year\
Elections:\
Anniversary: Once every _4_ years\
\b\fs32 Snooze\
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\b0\fs24 This is the snooze function. It's just like the snooze\
button on your alarm clock, only you can also\
select the interval and how many times it will go off.\
\b\fs32 Alarm Sound\
\b0\fs24 This is the path or name of the sound file that will be\
played as the alarm sound. The default can be set in\
Preferences.... You can de-select this and no alarm\
sound will be played when the event occurs.\
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\fs32 Priority
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\b0\fs24 This is the display priority of the messages. Events\
can be either normal, invisible or highlighted. Normal\
events are... normal.\
Invisible events don't show up until their appointed\
day, nor are they logged.\
Highlighted events are highlighted in the Overview.\
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\fs32 Message\
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\b0\fs24 This is the message to be displayed\
when the alarm goes off. If you de-select it,\
no alarm panel will appear and only the alarm\
sound will play. If you also happen to have de-\
selected the Alarm Sound, then nothing will happen...\
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Insert\
\b0\fs24 Hit this when you are finished and want to Insert\
the event into the queue.\
\i Power User's Tip: Hold down the ALTERNATE key \
while clicking on the INSERT button to keep the Add\
Events Panel from closing itself. This is useful if your\
are adding many events at the same time.\
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\b\fs28 Start Over\
\b0\fs24 This resets everything back to their default values.\
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Kassandra: The Person
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\b0\fs24 Back in the days of yore, in the Trojan war, there was a nice woman named Kassandra, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, the rulers of Troy. She happened to be a priestess of Apollo. As such things happened, Apollo got the hots for Kassandra and made a pass at her. Kassandra, being the sensible woman that she was, refused his advances. She said no twice. Apollo got pissed.\
So he cursed her (not always the best thing to do if you want a woman's attention). She had extracted out of him the promise of prophesy before he knew that she wouldn't give him any, and since he was a god, he couldn't refuse it. But since she tricked him, Apollo cursed her so that although all her prophesies came true, no one would believe or understand a word that she said. \
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