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- - On This Day for Windows, Version 1.5 - DESCRIBE.DOC -
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- O N T H I S D A Y F O R W I N D O W S
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- Version 1.5
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- D E S C R I P T I O N A N D
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- A U T H O R I N F O R M A T I O N
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- Last updated: May, 1993
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- This file includes sample descriptions which you may use to describe
- On This Day for Windows.
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- Disk Vendors and Distributors please refer to the VENDOR.DOC text
- file.
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- Program Information:
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- File Name(s) for BBSs:
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- For consistency and to help users locate the files, please use the
- following file name:
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- WOTD_15.ZIP On This Day for Windows version 1.5
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- If the program is compressed using some other file compression
- method, then please use the name "WOTD_15" with the appropriate
- extension (PAK, ARC, LZH, ZOO, etc.).
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- Keywords:
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- history, trivia, education, birthday, event, calendar, Windows
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- Category:
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- education
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- Short Description:
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- On This Day for Windows is a program and collection of databases
- to answer the question "What Happened On This Day In History?"
- The databases contain thousands of birthdays, events, religious
- holidays, etc. The program supports dates in the Gregorian,
- Hebrew, Islamic, and Julian calendars and calculates a limited
- number of astronomical events. Requires Microsoft Windows 3.0 or
- better.
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- Long Description:
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- Did you know that Children's Day is the second Sunday in June? Or
- that November is Aviation History Month? How about that Willard
- Scott (NBC's "birthday boy") was born on March 7th 1934?
- Confuscious was born August 27th, 551 BC? On This Day can tell
- you all this and much more.
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- On This Day for Windows is an event database printing program.
- Click on the date in which you are interested (keyboard commands
- also work) and the program will do the rest. It will search a
- group of databases (supplied) and print the data for the date
- you specified. On This Day for Windows will search an extra,
- personal, file so all your personal events need not be mixed with
- the data in the provided files.
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- Since the databases are ordinary text files and the format is
- completely documented, you can make changes and additions using
- your favorite text editor or word processor.
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- On This Day for Windows supports dates in the Gregorian (the one
- many of us use daily), Hebrew, Islamic, and Julian calendars. On
- This Day for Windows can also determine the day of the week on
- which a requested date falls. Thus, you can specify dates like
- Memorial Day (the last Monday in May).
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- On This Day for Windows calculates the date of Easter in the
- requested year, allowing specification of all Christian holidays.
- On This Day for Windows also calculates the phases of the moon
- (flagging eclipses), solstices, and equinoxes.
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- Possibly best of all, On This Day for Windows comes with a
- collection of databases ready to use with the program.
- Registered users are provided with databases containing roughly
- 15,000 events, holidays, and birthdays! Registered users are
- also supplied with a few other utilities that we've found useful
- in maintaining changes in the larger databases and a database of
- quotations that is ONLY available to registered users.
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- Note that we also have a version which will run outside the
- Windows environment. See PRODUCTS.DOC for descriptions of all
- our offerings.
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- Registration Information:
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- Registration costs $25 (US funds). Massachusetts residents please
- include 5% sales tax.
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- Registered users get:
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- o Latest version of On This Day for Windows.
- o A collection of HUGE databases ready to use.
- o A few utilities useful to maintaining such large databases.
- o A database of quotations.
- o Notification of future updates (via our quarterly
- newsletter).
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- For complete user registration information please refer to the
- REGISTER.DOC text file.
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- You can order by sending check, cash, or money order to
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- The Software Construction Co.
- PO Box 160
- North Billerica, MA 01862-0160
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- or with MC, Visa, Amex, or Discover from
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- Public (software) Library
- PO Box 35705
- Houston, TX 77235-5705
- (800) 242-4775
- (713) 524-6394
- (713) 524-6398 FAX
- 71355,470 CIS email
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- These numbers are for orders only. To insure that you get the
- latest version, PsL will notify us the day of your order and we
- will ship the product directly to you. Any questions about the
- status of the shipment of the order, refunds, registration
- options, product details, technical support, volume discounts,
- dealer pricing, site licenses, etc, must be directed to The
- Software Construction Co. at the address previously given.
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- Australian users can order in Australian dollars ($49) by Cheque,
- Money Order, Bankcard, Mastercard, or Visacard from:
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- BUDGETWARE
- PO Box 496
- Newtown NSW 2042
- AUSTRALIA
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- Phone (02) 519-4233 Intl +61 2 5194233
- FAX (02) 516-4236 Intl +61 2 5164236
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- Author/Publisher Information:
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- The Software Construction Co. is a small software company owned and
- operated by Wayne Geiser.
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- At The Software Construction Co. we believe that the PRIMARY purpose of
- business is service, not profit. This concept is fundamental to our
- approach to product development, production and marketing.
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- The Software Construction Co. has been producing top quality computer
- software at reasonable prices, continuously, since 1989.
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- Please feel free to contact me (Wayne Geiser) at any time if you have any
- questions, comments or suggestions. I can be reached by mail at the
- following address:
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- Wayne Geiser
- The Software Construction Co.
- PO Box 160
- North Billerica, MA 01862-0160
- USA
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- I can also be reached electronically as follows:
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- CompuServe: 70313,3615
- GEnie: W.GEISER
- Internet: softcons@world.std.com
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