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┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ Windows Reminder │
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└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
What is REMINDER?
Did You ever forget your best friend's birthday? Hopefully this will
not happen again with REMINDER.
REMINDER reads a text file with your important dates and displays
everything that lies within a user selectable range in a window.
By default REMINDER will show your dates for the next 10 days.
The power of this program is its simplicity.
Installation
Copy REMINDER.EXE to your Windows directory and install it with program
manager. You will also need the VBRUN100.DLL runtime library somewhere
on your DOS path. You will find this library on every Win*Net BBS.
Copy the REMINDER.DAT to the same directory where REMINDER.EXE is located.
I would strongly advise you to put REMINDER.EXE into your RUN= statement.
Operation
REMINDER has five buttons:
'Thank you' terminates the program. This is the default.
'Change' calls the editor (default: notepad) with your REMINDER.DAT file.
'Rescan' re-reads REMINDER.DAT.
'Options' call the REMINDER's option panel.
'Info' displays information about REMINDER.
Please note, that REMINDER.DAT has to be in the current directory, when
REMINDER is started. If it cannot find the file, it will display an error
message and terminate. Notepad has to be in your path if you want to use
it from within REMINDER.
Format of REMINDER.DAT
Each date you would like to remember has to be on a separate line.
The format of this line is year month day text. Leadings spaces are
ignored. Example:
91 10 18 Call George to confirm contract
91 10 20 Check savings account
1991 11 1 She is turning 32
A zero is a wildcard. These will trigger reminders every year or month.
0 5 10 Volker Weber's birthday. Don't forget to send a card.
0 0 25 Pay next month's rent.
Do not insert empty lines or commas within REMINDER.DAT
Options
This is new to version 1.2. You can set up a range of days and
select your favorite (windows) editor. You might as well leave
everything at the default.
The option panel has three input fields:
- from day: defaults to -1 (i.e. yesterday)
- to day: defaults to 10
- editor: defaults to notepad.exe
REMINDER does not perform any error checking. It simply is a 'Garbage
in - garbage out' setup. If you specify 'from tomorrow 'til yesterday'
that's exactly what you will get: nothing.
If REMINDER cannot find the editor you specified, it will display an
error message and terminate.
The options panel has four buttons:
- Cancel: close options panel
- Default: set everything back to default
- Temporary: close options panel and rescan REMINDER.DAT with the
new settings
- Permanent: same as 'Temporary'. Write Settings to WIN.INI. REMINDER
will read the settings from WIN.INI next time.
If you painted yourself into a corner with the options panel, press
'Default' and 'Permanent'. If all else fails, remove the lines in the
[Reminder] section of WIN.INI.
License
You may copy or distribute REMINDER as long as you do not charge
anything for it - I strongly encourage you to do so.
There is one thing I wolud like you to do. If you like this program
and continue to use it, please send a postcard to my adress:
Volker Weber
Kahlertstr. 32
6100 Darmstadt
Germany
If you like to donate any money, please feel free to do that as well.
By sending me your postcard you will implicitly acquire a lifetime
license to use this program. This seems a reasonable price to me. I
am very much looking forward to receiving cards from all over the
world. Thank you.
Waranty
This program takes up valuable space on your precious harddisk, although
not very much. That's all. No other waranties implied or expressed.
Further development
There are many possible enhancements to this program. Nevertheless I
probably will not do them. If I get into my programming mood again I
most certainly will do something completely new.
Have fun with this little program
Volker Weber Darmstadt, October 1991
Moderator WINDOWS.GER
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