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NUMDAY.EXE (NUMber of DAYs between two dates and new date) version 1.0 (c) copy right 1992 All Rights Reserved no edition date. Ever had a need to change the system date while you're using your software? Did you ever wonder how many days there are between now and a future appointment date? And wanted to send the current date or the number of days between two dates to your software? The set up of this document is as follows: IN-LINE COMMAND PARAMETERS HELP RUNNING WITH DEFAULTS ONLY TURNING ON/OFF NUMDAY.EXE A NEW POP UP MENU HOT KEY CHANGING THE POP UP MENU ATTRIBUTE (or color) POP UP MENU'S LOCATION DiReCtly BECOMING MEMORY RESIDENT HOW NUMDAY.EXE WORKS USING THE POP UP MENU CHAT IN A HAT PROMPTS AND MESSAGES DISCLAIMERS, INFO FOR SYSOPS ETC =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= IN-LINE COMMAND PARAMETERS NUMDAY parameters<ntr> explanations =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= HELP If you simply type NUMDAY<ntr> then you get the help page built into this program for quick reference so that you can avoid reading documents such as this. Typing incorrect parameters also gives you similar helps, but are explained in this document as well. It's not essential that you read this document file, because when you type parameters with incorrect or missing values, they usually give detailed context sensitive help messages which will substitute for this, but skimming through this first will help you. The "<ntr>" is our way of saying <CR>, ^M, ^13, <ENTER>, carriage return, <ENTER> etc which all mean the same thing. We also use <bks> for backspace, <esc> for the escape key, and "any key" to mean any function key, cursor key, letters, etc etc. There is no one key with the word "any", but if we say "space bar" or "space key", we mean the big long key. There is no <tab>, control code or extended ascii in this file, should you print this to paper. There is no form feed here, so if you use single sheets, you must add them yourself. If you use a daisy wheel printer without the less than sign "<" or the greater than sign ">", change them to the left parenthesis "(" and right parenthesis ")" respectively. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= RUNNING WITH DEFAULTS ONLY To run this with defaults, simply type NUMDAY RUN<ntr> Just the letter "r" in "run" will work also. There is no difference between the capital letters and small letters, unless it is specifically stated otherwise. Any other command or text after the Run parameter is ignored. The Run parameter is used when you run NUMDAY.EXE without setting any other parameter or for commenting purpose: NUMDAY R anything else here becomes comments <ntr> The defaults used are as follows: 1) The default hot key to pop up the Menu is the altM key combination: Press down on the alt key and while keeping it pressed down, also press down on the "M" key (there is no need to press down on the Shift or Caps Lock to make it capital M). 2) The character Attribute is set to value 7, which is a gray letter on black. (On amber, it is light amber. On green monitor, its light green etc.) 3) The default menu will appear on the top left row and column respectively. 4) The program becomes memory resident using DOS. If your editor or word processor lets you see the <ntr> at the end of each line here as a music sign, ignore them. Sometimes, the music signs are aligned for our benefit while this document is edited, but it is not significant. Often some details are reworded in a later section to help you grasp the meaning better. So rapidly scan through the document first, before concentrating on a section which interests you. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= A NEW POP UP MENU HOT KEY If you don't want to use the altM key combination to pop up the menu, then you have a choice of 100's more. Any key can be used as a hot key. If you type the hot key while in the menu, the menu aborts and the hot key is sent to your software. So, if you decide to use the small letter "n" as the pop up menu's hot key ("M49,110"), typing it will cause the pop up to appear, but type the small letter (not the capital letter "N") again and the menu aborts, sending the small letter "n" to your software. To find what command parameter you need to make any of these combinations act as the new menu hot key, type NUMDAY M<ntr> This will ask you to type any valid key combination which can be used as a new menu hot key. If you press down on the altM key combination at this time, then it responds with a you need 50,000 and if you enter the command parameter NUMDAY M50,000<ntr> then altM will act as the menu's pop up hot key combination as is the default. If there is a first copy of NUMDAY.EXE already in memory, then this value is sent to the first copy in memory. If you pressed down on the alt+ combination, then it tells you that you need 131,000 so enter this command parameter NUMDAY M131,000<ntr> to make alt+ the menu's pop up hot key. As you can see, to make altM, alt+, control-F1 and other keys into the new menu hot key, numbers are followed by three zeros. If you pressed down on the alt key and while keeping it pressed down, you type "22" on the numeric keypad on the right side of the keyboard and them let go of the alt key, then NUMDAY M22<ntr> will make this the new hot key for the menu. NUMDAY.EXE ignores the comma "," and counts the number only. The comma is only for your sake, so NUMDAY M131000<ntr> will also make alt+ the new hot key. But NUMDAY M131 000<ntr> will not work since NUMDAY.EXE accepts the space between the "131" and "000" as the beginning of a new command parameter. NUMDAY M1310,0,0<ntr> will work since the location and the number of commas is not significant and is ignored anyway. But NUMDAY M131.000<ntr> will get NUMDAY.EXE confused since it accepts the period as the terminator of "131" and tries to process it as a new command parameter which begins with ".000" and aborts. NUMDAY M 131,000<ntr> with the space between the Menu parameter and the number is allowed because NUMDAY.EXE will search for a number as soon as it encounters the Menu parameter. NUMDAY R M22<ntr> will run with the default altM as the hot key because the Run parameter considers everything after itself as comments which are not checked. NUMDAY M1 M22<ntr> will tell NUMDAY.EXE to use the alt numeric keypad "1" as the hot key but then makes it use alt and "22" as the one to really use, since the later one overrides the former one. The internal counter can count up to approximately 4,000,000,000 but all numbers not allowed will be rejected. If you maliciously decide to enter large numbers, modulus four billion (2 to the power of 32) is used to calculate the number. While the prompting parameter with NUMDAY M<ntr> only displays valid key combinations which are accepted by your computer, you can do NUMDAY M255,000<ntr> which causes NUMDAY.EXE to run with an impossible code which not even 101/102 key keyboards can generate. After you ran this program with the hot key set to M255,000 to prevent the pop up, if you run this program again with, for example, NUMDAY M131000<ntr> Then this second copy of NUMDAY.EXE will detect that a first copy of itself is already in memory and will not make itself memory resident, but it also notes that the hot key option is used. In this case, this NUMDAY.EXE will change the hot key of the first copy of itself in memory to this new value (M131,000 is alt+) so that if you now type the alt+ key combination, the pop up menu will pop up. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= CHANGING THE POP UP MENU ATTRIBUTE (or color) If you have a color monitor, or even a monochrome/amber monitor, you can try a pop up other than the default white letters on black background. Of course, even with a paper white monitor, you can play with this parameter to avoid screen burn outs. NUMDAY A7<ntr> If there is a first copy of NUMDAY.EXE already in memory, then this value is sent to the first copy in memory. This is the default which sets the menu for white letters on black background. Of course, on amber monitor, it appears as amber. On green monitors, there are only a few useful values (A7, A112) with the rest appearing as vertically striped characters. On laptops, the screen color dictates how it will appear, but your choices are very limited, except on very expensive ones. There is no trouble with palmtops, since this program's menu is a maximum of 32 characters long, but the following will not work correctly unless its screen is 80 columns wide. Plasma, electroluminescent and others all behave differently, but mentioning all the display types and various graphic cards are ignored, since this isn't a dictionary on the subject. Rather than have you calculate the required values, just type NUMDAY A<ntr> without any attribute value runs the built-in interactive help, displaying exactly how the pop up menu will look like with different attribute values, starting with A7 default white characters on black background. With the SCROLL LOCK OFF Press on the left/right cursors to change the value and watch the different colors. <esc> exits. Home and End keys set the attribute to A7 and A127 respectively. Between A128 - A255, the letters will be blinking. (unless you have a Hercules Ramfont, and an appropriate font was loaded) If you suffer epileptic seizures, avoid going into this area. If you suffer red/green color blindness, placing an appropriate wavelength red filter over one eye will help you to distinguish colors. Similar for yellow/purple. Below A0, it becomes A255 and above A255, it becomes A0 again. With the SCROLL LOCK ON Press on the left/right/up/down cursors to move the menu around on the screen. This leaves a mess on your screen, with the screen scrolling up if you move the menu down on the very right corner and painting your screen in chosen colors. However, it gives you a rough idea as to what row (-) or column (!) value will be needed to pop up the menu in a certain location. Home and End keys move the row value to 7 and 127 respectively. The column values remain unaffected. The width of the first line is 32 characters wide, so if you move the menu to the very far right, the other lines, which are more than 32 characters will scroll to the next row on the left part of your screen. Type <esc> to exit. If you select, for example, blue character on red background and paint the left bottom corner of your screen with this color and Home to move the menu up before exiting with <esc>, your DOS screen will be painted in this color until you type CLS<ntr> or run your softwares. On amber monitor, the DOS screen intensity is affected. On green monitor (with CGA card), it causes striped illegible characters with most attribute values. With monochrome cards, most values produce no change. With Hercules Ramfont, unless you loaded the appropriate fonts, it will behave like a regular monochrome card. Most laptops are CGA card compatible, but the screen may behave as if monochrome cards were used. After you exit, the DOS screen is affected. The original color and other features are not preserved. If you ran with the row and column values for anything but the default -1 and !1 respectively, then the initial menu location is also affected. If you did NUMDAY -2 !3 A<ntr> the initial menu will be on second row, third column. But if you did NUMDAY A -10 !20<ntr> then row and column values are set to one, not 10 and 20 respectively, because the presence of the Attribute command without any command immediately goes into the interactive mode and ignores any other commands after it. On the other hand, this works NUMDAY -10!20A<ntr> even though there are no spaces separating them. But because it looks messy, you should avoid it. If you did NUMDAY -100 !200 A<ntr> then both the row and column values are outside allowed values and so will abort with an appropriate message. On the other hand, if you did NUMDAY A1 A<ntr> then instead of starting with the default A7, the display will start with A1 (blue character on black background) and cycle as before. If the first attribute value is outside the limit of A1 - A255, this aborts with the regular error. If you did NUMDAY A5<ntr> you just made NUMDAY.EXE memory resident (unless NUMDAY.EXE was already in memory) because you forgot to use the "A<ntr>" without any number. The pop up will be magenta (purple) on black background if you have a color monitor. There is no compensation for VGA color table look up, 512 color EGA mode etc so that the colors mentioned above may not apply in your case if you used a software which changes your monitor screen colors. IBM monitors tend to be very accurate in actual color display, but many other monitors, including older NEC monitors do not reproduce the specified colors correctly so that you may have to adjust your contrast and brightness to get almost the right colors you expected. The reason why this is called an Attribute, rather than a Color parameter is because on non-color monitors, this controls whether the letter is regular, high-intensity, reverse, blinking etc. And none of these are in color. Of course, the correct spelling in Canada and Britain for "color" is really "colour". "A7" does appear as true gray/grey color characters on black on true IBM color monitors. This option can be used with an amber monitor to determine the intensity of the letters used in the pop up menu. The striation obvious with green monitors prevents most values from being useful. A112 may cause a "blooming" effect on some lower cost monitors with inadequate power supplies. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= POP UP MENU'S LOCATION The default pops up the one line menu on the top row (-1) and left most column (!1). (a "row" is the line going in this "-" direction and a "column" is the line going in this "!" direction.) To change the default row to row five, NUMDAY -5<ntr> If there is a first copy of NUMDAY.EXE already in memory, then this value is sent to the first copy in memory. To change the column to column 20, NUMDAY !20<ntr> If there is a first copy of NUMDAY.EXE already in memory, then this value is sent to the first copy in memory. If your screen can display more than 80 columns wide, then you can change the row to 10 and the column to 80 like this NUMDAY -10 !80<ntr> The range for the row and column are -1 to -80, and !1 to !80 respectively. If you select row and column locations which are not supported by your monitor and video card combination, then the pop up menu will not be visible on screen, but is active nonetheless. The interactive mode available with the Attribute parameter will tell you what values will make the menu appear where. The pop up menu works on the EGA/VGA 43/50 rows mode and any other higher mode supported by your hardware now or in the near future. (a "time resistant product") =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= DiReCtly BECOMING MEMORY RESIDENT If you find that you cannot make this pop up the menu when you type the hot key while in DOS, then DOS (or something controlling DOS) prevented this from working. In that case, you can make this memory resident DiReCtly, bypassing DOS to make to this memory resident by typing NUMDAY DRC<ntr> This does not work if there is already a first copy of NUMDAY.EXE in memory. If you type NUMDAY R DRC<ntr> then since everything after the Run parameter is a comment, this does not make this memory resident using the DiReCt method. But NUMDAY DRC R<ntr> will work, though it's the same as if you typed NUMDAY DRC<ntr> since the Run parameter is only used when the default parameter values are used. If you typed NUMDAY D<ntr> a message will display, explaining what this is used for. If a first copy of NUMDAY.EXE is already in memory, then this will tell you so. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= HOW NUMDAY.EXE WORKS =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= When you first run NUMDAY.EXE with either the default parameters using the Run option or others, this simply checks to make sure everything is in order and then becomes memory resident. This will make sure that you're using at least DOS 2. If the system clock date is before July of 1992, this aborts, since the system clock is not set correctly. If there is already a first copy of itself in memory, then this copy will check to see if it is the same version as this. If not, this aborts. Now any parameter which you typed is checked for incorrect values associated with them. If you forgot what the parameters do, simply type NUMDAY<ntr> to display the help, then type the parameters without the required values to display the corresponding message, so that you don't have to refer back to this document. If there is a first copy of this in memory already, then the parameters are sent to the first copy and this second copy will abort. If there is no first copy of this in memory already, then this becomes memory resident, awaiting for you to type the hot key. USING THE POP UP MENU If you type the hot key by mistake, type <esc> to abort, back to your software. No key will be sent to your software. If you typed the hot key, but want to send the hot key to your software, type the hot key again to abort: The hot key will be sent to your software. Once you type the hot key the first time, the menu will look like this, if today is July 4, 1992: Jul 4,1992.... Jul 4,1992 The current dates will be the default when this first pops up. Cursor left and right to move to the different month, day-of-the-month and the year. Now cursor up and down to decrease and increase each value respectively. The month will decrease to "Jan" and increases up to "Dec". The day-of-the-month will decrease to "1" and increases up to "31". If you set for a month which did not have 31 days, then when you type the <space> bar, it will beep and places the cursor on the offending day-of-the-month. The year will decrease to "1980" and increases up to the year "2099". There is no need for the left or the right date to be before or after the other date. The "...." will be replaced by the number of days between any two valid dates. To find the number of days between two selected dates, press down on the <space> key and the "...." between the two dates will be replaced by a number representing the number of days which exists between the two dates displayed. If one of the dates is incorrect, for example, a "Feb. 31", then NUMDAY.EXE will beep briefly and then places the blinking cursor on the incorrect day-of-the-month which is incorrect. To exit the menu using the left date on the menu as the new system clock date, press down on either the small or the capital letter "K" to Keep the date. If you only use this program to change the system dates, then leave the right date as is, so that you know what date was the true system clock date. If you use this program to change the system dates and also find the number of dates between the true date and the system clock dates which you change to, then leave the right date along and manipulate only the left date on the menu. To send the current date or both dates and the number of days between the two dates, type any other key. (your software must be in a text insertable mode) If you type anything but <esc>, <space> or the letter "K", then that is accepted as the key to send the dates to your software. Lets say that you typed the small letter "z" to exit the menu: As long as you keep pressing down on the small letter "z", the dates are sent to your software. Once the dates are sent, your software gets a lot of "zzzzz" as in Jul 4,1992.... Jul 4,1992zzzzz If your software does not use the function key F10, then exit with F10 and keep pressing down on F10 and after the dates are sent to your software, nothing happens. If your software beeps if you type illegal keys, you can use it as the key also. To insert only the current system clock date on the left side on the menu, simply type any key other than the "z", "F10" etc above and the insertion ends: If you used F10 to exit the menu, tap on the F10 key six times and then anything else and the date "Jul 4" is sent to your software. Whenever you pop up the menu, the left date is always the current system clock date and the right date is whatever you set previously. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= CHAT in a HAT =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I've encountered lots of crooked dentists: The main method used was to loosen existing fillings so that they need some new fillings. Another was to cut the wires connecting some false teeth so that they eventually come off. In time, the bad dentists move to another city to continue the practice, but in the meanwhile the havoc creates mistrust of any good or bad dentist. There aren't any crooked programmer that I know of, but crummy programmers do abound. Think about it. (if we're among the crummy programmers, at least we weren't the ones who made the major softwares which destroyed those files which took years to make but only a second to erase.) US and J hawks have one thing in common: Both point out the weaknesses in J which need fixing, so that J can efficiently push out more US firms. I'd rather point out the weaknesses in "us" which need fixing, though some "US" hawks do hate me for not down-playing its skeletons in the closet. If you're a devout Cuban communist, you can defeat US by helping them. (But then who listens to a destitute igloo dweller like me?) A lie is simply half the truth of a coin, something the old communists were good at. European magazines often point to the US which used to copy and improved upon European ideas. US often talk of how J copy and improve upon US ideas as if it's the whole truth, however. No one monopolizes talents. (actually Canadian media also chides US as a braggard worth its weight in hot air, but then who listens to permafrosted polar bears and mounted police in the great, frozen north?) Cold fusion in a bottle: A Russian originally noted the unusual ratios of deutrium:tritium in platinum group ore long ago. Then a German group claimed that they got the fusion going before it was cast away as tritium impurity in the metal bar. Then two American groups claimed that they discovered it before it too was cast away. Now the only major group claiming excess heat production is just J. If it's cast away also, will anyone get blamed? But if it becomes a commercial process, who'll claim credit? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= PROMPTS AND MESSAGES =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-= Unknown parameter on the command line =-=-= The parameter lists up till the one in question is displayed prior to this message. Something not recognized was found on the line when you ran the program. If you ran this program from a batch file, error messages are followed by errorlevel = 1 so that you can have your batch file take appropriate actions. The list of parameters will be listed up to the erroneous parameter so that you know which one was incorrect. =-=-= You don't have to do it, NUMDAY.EXE is already in memory =-=-= You tried to run this program when a copy of this was already in memory. =-=-= DOS 2 or above needed. =-=-= You tried to use DOS 1.0 or DOS 1.1 to run this program. This message should not appear, since DOS 2.0 and above has been used for almost ten years by the time you're reading this document. =-=-= There is a first copy of NUMDAY.EXE in memory, but the version number is not the same as this one. Aborting. =-=-= You tried to change the settings of the first copy of NUMDAY.EXE in memory using the second copy running now, but the two were not the same version. The second copy will abort without doing anything to prevent corrupting the first copy in memory. Please delete the older one and use only the newer version. =-=-= Bad PC system clock year. Since this program was made in 1992, any date prior to it indicates that the system clock needs to be readjusted completely. Aborting. =-=-= The system clock year was set to a date before July 1992. Since this program was made in July of 1992, any date prior to that is taken as an incorrect clock value and this program aborts. Please set it or you may have to replace the battery. =-=-= I'm sorry. I don't recognize this DOS version as a type which I can work with. Aborting. =-=-= This was not DOS 1, but this DOS did not contain the information which is required for this to work. While this will work up to DOS 5.0, there is no way to say whether this will work with DOS 5.1 or 6.0 and other future versions of DOS. Note that the following messages are very explanatory and often require no explanation, but brief explanations are included since these documents often look like a dozen people in a dozen cities wrote separate sections. (Programmers are often accused of writing cryptic documents: It's because every change in the program requires a change in the document as well, resulting in patched up documentation.) The idea of using explained examples come from Digital Equipment Corp. manuals for the PDP/VAX minicomputers, but the extensive nature of error messages is our idea. They are listed here so that you don't have to try to recreate all the error conditions in order to see what types of errors are generated by this program. These error messages are meant to be context sensitive help messages so that you can avoid referring back to this document everytime you forgot to do something. =-=-= No hot key value given. Use NUMDAY M<ntr> if you need help on finding a new hot key. =-=-= You only typed NUMDAY M0<ntr> which is not a valid key code. Actually, the control-Break key combination does generate this key value, but it is not accepted as valid. =-=-= This is not a valid value. For help, please use NUMDAY M<ntr> =-=-= You typed incorrect menu hot key value such as NUMDAY M0<ntr> NUMDAY M260<ntr> NUMDAY M256,257<ntr> If you only typed NUMDAY M<ntr> then NUMDAY.EXE will simply prompt you to type any key. When you type any valid key or key combination, then it will tell you what value will be required to use this key or key combination within the program. =-=-= The Attribute parameter value is outside the correct range A0 to A255. To find what value is required, type NUMDAY A<ntr> for the interactive help to tell you what value gives what character Attribute ("color" on a color monitor). To start with Attribute 17, type NUMDAY A17 A<ntr> Type HOME for Attribute 7, END for Attribute 127. It also tells you what various row "-" and column "!" values are required. =-=-= You followed the Attribute followed by incorrect numbers. If you followed the Attribute parameter by another letter, then it is taken as NUMDAY A<ntr> so that if you type NUMDAY AB<ntr> the "B" is thrown away. =-=-= A column is the line which goes in this "!" direction The column "!" value is outside the correct range of !1 through !80 to display on column 1 through column 80. The value is not checked against the present visible number of columns on your screen. To find the appropriate column location for your monitor, NUMDAY A<ntr> which gives you the Attribute and the row/column values and where they would appear. =-=-= You typed the exclamation mark followed by nothing or a number outside the correct range. =-=-= A row is the line which goes in this "-" direction. The row "-" value is outside the correct range of -1 through -80 to display on row 1 through row 80. The value is not checked against the present visible number of rows on your screen. To find the appropriate row location for your monitor, try NUMDAY A<ntr>',crlf which gives you the Attribute and the row/column values and where they would appear. =-=-= You typed the hyphen followed by nothing or a number outside the correct range. Note that there is no difference between a minus sign "-" and a hyphen "-". It's merely two says of calling the same thing. =-=-= The changes were made. Bye.' =-=-= There was a first copy of NUMDAY.EXE already in memory and you ran the second copy in order to change the first copy's parameters. The change or changes were done and the second copy will exit back to the DOS prompt. =-=-= I was expecting to find all three letters DRC for',crlf DiReCtly becoming memory resident without relying on DOS.',crlf Without this parameter, DOS help is used to become memory',crlf resident. Only use this parameter if this program does not',crlf become memory resident with default.',EOT0 =-=-= You typed only the letter D of the DRC parameter. Typing three letters prevents you from accidentally typing this when you meant to type something else. =-=-= I first copy of NUMDAY.EXE is already in memory.',EOT0 =-=-= You typed NUMDAY DRC<ntr> but there was already a first copy of NUMDAY.EXE already in memory. If you cannot get the hot key to pop up the menu, then reboot and try again, this time without NUMDAY.EXE already in memory. Hopefully all the important messages were covered. Now for the information to users: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= DISCLAIMERS, INFO FOR SYSOPS ETC =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= All products and names mentioned are Trademarks or Registered Trademarks of their respective corporations or companies. That includes my group or any other group's programs, of course. Some products may have patent protections as well. All enclosed programs, documents and other files are provided AS IS, without any warranty, expressed or implied, including but not limited to fitness for a particular purpose. A contribution of $10 (Cdn$10 if you're from Canada and US$10 if from the US and others) is appreciated, or $20 for an update as it becomes available. Default diskette sent to you is 5-1/4" double-sided 360kb diskette unless you specify otherwise. Shipping and handling are included. Please indicate what version and any edition date you have: Sometimes, the same version number & date is kept, but the edition month/year differs. In hard times, anything perceived as having resell value is a target for theft, including diskettes in nice containers: While disk mailers cost $2+tax etc, they're easy to tamper, as we've noticed, so if you got your diskette in cardboard, it was for your security, not our cheapness. But if you do insist on a mailer, we'll comply. (but you were warned...) If a shareware maker, BBS or a CD-ROM maker is mentioned as a source of the programs in this series, we don't even get one penny if you obtain the programs from them. It's only for your benefit, so that you can get the programs cheaply and also get to know other softwares made by other people. NAME OF THE PROGRAM: NUMDAY.EXE $10-$20 PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM: Tells you the number of days between two dates, which can then be inserted to your software. This can also correct your system clock with monthly adjustable value. Also lets you temporarily set the system clock to another time or date and then get it back. All these can be done at the DOS prompt level in a batch file or through the pop up menu. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ c/o Dr. M. Sawada & Assoc. P.O. Box 956 Outremont, Quebec Canada H2V 4R8 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+