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- From: 90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Learn programming?
- Message-ID: <9212180606.AA24862@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 06:06:27 GMT
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- Organization: MuGS Research and Development Facility
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- The following revelation escaped ustai@g.ms.uky.edu's lips:
- >
- > I have an idea for a da/init. Upon boot up and when it crosses
- > midnight, it would check a designated appleworks classic/gs db file for names
- > and birthdays and stick in either on a line at the bottom of the screen or in a
- > window or make a sign somewhere that there's yet again someone you forgot to
- > send a birthday card to.
-
- Basically what the Appointment CDA in Prosel-16 does. ;-) Checking
- the time once a minute or so isn't difficult and doesn't eat up processor
- time. Menu clocks and NDA clocks do it all the time. You really wouldn't
- need a database file. A formatted text file should do (just to save you
- the hassle of understanding the AW/AWGS DB format).
-
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