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- mjog 1.2 05/04/85
-
- mjog is a little program which can help jog your memory for
- important dates (mjog = Memory JOGger). You can use mjog to
- create a small file containing birthdays, appointments, etc.,
- and it will start reminding you about them ten days in advance.
-
- To add a date to your file (or to create a new file if there
- isn't one already), just type
-
- mjog mm/dd/yy text
-
- where the mm/dd/yy is (obviously) the date, and "text" is
- whatever info you want displayed for that date. For example, if
- you type:
-
- mjog 4/13/85 Dinner with CPA
-
- mjog will add the note "Dinner with CPA" (on 4/15/85) to your
- file.
-
- To see if any important dates are coming up, just type "mjog".
- It will list anything coming up within ten days.
-
- If you leave off the year ("mjog 4/16 Find new CPA"), mjog will
- assume it's an annual event and remind you every year. If you
- do include the year, you can use either yy ("85") or yyyy
- ("1985") format. If the year is less than 85, it's assumed to
- be 20xx (like we'll really be using MSDOS machines in 2001).
-
- If you wish to occasionally "clean up" the mjog data file,
- include a "-c" parameter:
-
- mjog -c
-
- This will delete from the file any any entries for dates earlier
- than the current date. You may use -c along with other
- parameters, but it must be first:
-
- mjog -c mm/dd/yy text
-
- The file that mjog creates is called "mjog.dat". If mjog.dat
- will be in a directory other than the current (default)
- directory when mjog is run, you must inform the program where it
- is. Do this by including this statement in your autoexec.bat:
-
- mjogdir=<drive:path>
-
- For example, if the file is to be kept in directory C:\UTILITY,
- include this statement in you autoexec file:
-
- mjogdir=c:\utility
-
- The file is a standard ASCII text file, so you can edit it using
- your text editor if your wish. Note, however, that (due to a
- bug in the language compiler used to write mjog), your editor
- must NOT add an end-of-file character (^Z, decimal 26) to the
- end of the file. This will cause problems in reading new dates
- added to the file.
-
- mjog is a nice program to put in your autoexec.bat.
-
- This program has been placed in the public domain by its author.
- You may use it or give it to others, but you may not sell it. I
- do not warrant that it does anything worthwhile. mjog
- duplicates features of a similar program, the author of which
- (a) asks for a donation, and (b) won't tell you how to get rid
- of the irritating program logo (which also asks for a donation)
- unless you pay the piper. This is a trivial program, folks. I
- wrote it in about forty-five minutes, and you shouldn't
- have to pay for it.
-
- Chris Dunford
- CompuServe 76703,2002
- Version 1.2 05/04/85