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ALMANAC.COM
Copyright 1991 Sam Watson
COPYRIGHT NOTICE:
ALMANAC in all forms is a copyrighted program that is
distributed under the shareware concept. You may use ALMANAC for
30 consecutive days for the purpose of evaluation. After the
initial 30 days you must register your copy of ALMANAC if you
wish to use it at any time.
WARRANTY:
ALMANAC is distributed without any warranty either written
or implied. Sam Watson in no way will be liable to anyone for any
damages in any form arising from the use of ALMANAC.
CONTENTS: (DO NOT USE IF SIZE HAS BEEN ALTERED)
ZIPPED FILE
TTALM011.ZIP
UNZIPPED FILES SIZE DESCRIPTION
ALMANAC.COM 10,053 Main program
ALMANAC.CFG 661 Sample configuration file
ALMANAC.DOC 6,948 Documentation
ALMANAC.REG 1,467 Registration form
ALM.BAT 46 Sample Batch file
ALMANAC.EVE 87,436 Event file
ALMANAC.BIR 38,137 Birthdays (famous)
ALMANAC.QUO 25,590 Quotes
ALMANAC.REM 8,688 Reminders
NUMBER.HEX 4 Counter for Quotes
INSTALLATION:
(Examples given here are just illustrations of how the
installation can be done with a system that has the TRITEL BBS
software on drive C and in a directory called \TRITEL. You will
need to modify these examples to fit you system configuration.)
1. Create a disk directory for the ALMANAC programs to
reside:
C:>MD \TRITEL\ALMANAC
2. Copy all unzipped files to the disk directory where
you wish to have the program reside:
C:>COPY A:*.* C:\TRITEL\ALMANAC
3. If you wish to use ALMANAC as a program that is run as
an event copy the ALM.BAT file to the main BBS
directory:
C:>COPY C:\TRITEL\ALMANAC\ALM.BAT C:\TRITEL 4. Using an ascii editor edit the ALMANAC.CFG file to
match your system configuration. Note: ALMANAC.CFG must
be in the directory that will be default when
ALMANAC.COM is executed.
5. ALMANAC can be tested by going to the directory
containing the executable file and entering the program
name:
C:>CD \TRITEL\ALMANAC
C:\TRITEL\ALMANAC>ALMANAC
USING ALMANAC.COM:
ALMANAC is a stand-alone program that will create a daily
almanac for display as either a logon file or a listing for a
door. ALMANAC was designed for the TRITEL BBS system. For best
results it would be best to operate ALMANAC as an event, however,
it can be run independently. When the program is run a file will
be created that will have:
1. A header containing the name and phone number of the BBS
system along with the sysops name.
2. The date that the file was created. This is taken from the
systems date.
3. If any users registered to the BBS have a birthday (Data is
taken directly for the User listing USERS.DAT located in the
WORK directory) they are noted directly following the date.
4. Events that occurred on this day in history will be shown
next. This data is taken from the file ALMANAC.EVE
5. Births of famous people will be next. This data is taken
form the file ALMANAC.BIR
6. Reminders for the day are posted next. This data is taken
form the file ALMANAC.REM
7. A quote for the day will be the last item entered. This data
is taken form the file ALMANAC.QUO.
It should be noted that if the files have no information to match
the Month and Day items 3, 4, 5, and 6 will not be printed. The
program will automatically place in the file a CLEAR THE SCREEN
character at the beginning of the file and a MORE prompt at the
end of the file. If listed the CLEAR THE SCREEN character will be
a form feed causing some printers to feed a page of paper, and
the MORE prompt will be a "^P". ALMANAC.COM was written entirely in assembly language and
compiled using Eric Isaacson's A86 MICRO ASSEMBLER (shareware).
If you encounter problems or have suggestions for improvements
contact me either by mail or on my BBS.
Sam Watson
419 Falcon Ridge Way
Bolingbrook, Il. 60440-2173
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DISTRIBUTION:
This program may be distributed on any BBS provided there is
no charge for the distribution or time used in the download.
BBS's
that charge a fixed fee for member ship may also distribute this
software as long as there is no charge for the program or the
connect time. When distributed by either of these means you must
include all files listed in the contents section. If any file or
part of a file is deleted or added to this software should not be
distributed.
Dealers or shareware distributors who wish to distribute
this
software should contact me directly prior to any distribution.
Distribution rights will be negotiated on an individual basis.
REGISTRATION:
Please use the registration form provided in the file
ALMANAC.REG. Charges are as follows:
Single copy single user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10.00
Single copy multiple user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $35.00
Multiple copy multiple user . . . . . .$10.00/copy or $35.00
(which ever is larger)
Additional charges:
Disk containing the latest version of ALMANAC . . . . .$5.00
Text listing of the program unassembled . . . . . . .$100.00
DEFINITIONS:
Single copy single user: When one copy of the software
is to be loaded into one system and to be used on only
that system.
Single copy multiple user: When one copy of the
software is to be loaded onto several systems but only
one system will have the software loaded into memory at
any time.
Multiple copy multiple user: When more than one copy of
the software is loaded onto more than one system. It
could be possible that more than one system could be
using the software at any one time.
History:
11/29/91 Revision 01.0 First release
12/17/91 Revision 01.1
Fixed bug in disk reads when transfering data
from read files to temp storage.