This progam is distributed under the SHAREWARE concept and may be freely copied and distributed without charge to anyone who has a use for the program. The author of the program, however, retains all rights to the software under the copyright laws of both domestic and foreign countries. The software may not be modified in any way, shape or form either by editing the compiled code or by reverse de-compilation. Author recogintion must be retained on all distributed copies of the program. Users are encouraged to correspond with the author with suggested improvements and or problems arising from the use of the program. The software is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program is with the user. The user assunes full rresponsibility for selection and results obtained from the use of this program.
The program is designed to print yearly calendars between the years 1990-1999. The author designed the program after being frustrated by the various programs availabe which included many complicated and superfluous clip art. The program prints the months, days of the week and dates of the month based on the year selected without benefit of clip art or special dates. The months and days of the month are divided by graphic lines will print the annual calendar on three (3) 8.5" by 11" paper using the EPSON/IBM character set. The calendar generated is purely generic and serves a useful purpose of providing the yearly calendar in a compressed quarterly space.
There is no User Manual, per se. (You're reading it now!) The operating instructions are quite simple as follows:
1. Bring up your system in the normal manner (turn the power on and do whatever you nornally do to get to the system prompt.)
2. Insert the program disk in the the default drive (the default drive is usually the first drive in the system and is designated as the A: drive) and make it ready (turn the handle down!).
3. Type "A:" (without the quote maks) then press the ENTER key. A
second, or so, later the DOS prompt on the screen should say A:>
(or something reasonalbly close to it).
4. Type "CALENDAR" (without the quotes) then press the ENTER key.
After a whirring sound, a ShareWare message should appear on the
screen for about 15 seconds and be followed by the CALENDAR input
screen prompt asking for the year to print the calendar.
5. type the year of the calendar to be printed -- e.g., 1992, 1993,
etc. -- followed by pressing the ENTER key.
6. A couple of messages about making sure there is paper in the
printer and that the printer is turned on is displayed before
printing the calendar. After checking, press any key to start
printing the calendar.
7. If you run into a problem (or just want to stop printing), just
strike the ESC key. This action will return you to the DOS prompt
and you can start over again. Please note that this action may not
immediately stop the printer! Most printers have a buffer and will
continue to print even after you tell it to stop -- the best way I
found to stop the printer is to turn the printer power off when I
want it to stop immediately.
8. When the CALENDAR program has completed formatting and sending
information to the printer, it returns to the calendar year prompt
and waits for the next input (item 5 above). If you want to print
another calendar, enter the same (or a different) year. To end the
program, just enter 00 (zero zero) for the calendar year to print.
If you find this program useful and wish to renumerate the author, please remit your contribution (registration fee) of $5.00 to the above address. Thank you and enjoy.
