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PERSONAL CALENDAR (PC) FOR DOS Version 14.41
FILE README.DOC 10 Mar 1992
Introductory Information
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Copyright 1985-1992 by Paul Munoz-Colman. All rights reserved.
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INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hello!
Personal Calendar (PC) is a Personal Information Manager (PIM) which contains
an appointment reminder and a notepad. PC displays a three-month scrollable
calendar, a running analog and digital clock, and a time-oriented event (to-do)
list and a text note list, each 300 in capacity. A modifiable unlimited
historical tracking (diary) is made of events and notes, all printable.
Warnings and alarms tell when something is pending or overdue (ticklers).
Driven by a simple flexible menu interface, Personal Calendar can be a normal
or a TSR (pop up) program, as you choose; TSR use interrupts you at the
earliest event. As a TSR, an extremely small 6K byte kernel remains in DOS
memory, with the balance swapped to EMS or disk. TSR programming is extremely
stable and environment-sensitive.
PACKAGING
~~~~~~~~~
Personal Calendar is packaged either on a diskette or a Bulletin Board System
(BBS) download, and is contained in a PKZIP authenticated compressed archive
file. The file takes on one of two forms: a self-extracting archive (EXE) or
a normal archive file (ZIP). There is no difference in the file content of
either form; just in the way you extract information from them. The file is
named as follows --
PCnnnn.EXE - Self-extracting ZIP file [diskette version]
or PCnnnn.ZIP - Normal ZIP file (you need PKUNZIP to extract) [BBS version]
"nnnn" is the version number (i.e. PC1441.EXE or PC1441.ZIP is the name of
the archive file for Personal Calendar Version 14.41).
SIMPLE INSTALLATION
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Here's a simple example of installation from the archive to a directory on your
disk drive, which works for either a shareware or registered copy of Personal
Calendar, and is the same for a new installation or an update.
In the following example, from a diskette, A: is the floppy drive. For the BBS
download example, E:\ZIP is the directory to where you downloaded. In both
cases, D: is the destination drive, and \CALENDAR is the subdirectory to which
Personal Calendar is to be installed. Vary these values to suit your
situation.
Either copy the BBS ZIP file from your download directory, or insert the
distribution diskette in your floppy drive and enter the following commands
from the DOS prompt (-O is the letter "o" to overwrite existing files of the
same name):
DOS Command What it does
~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
D: Change to the target drive
MD \CALENDAR If needed, make Personal Calendar's directory
CD \CALENDAR Change to Personal Calendar's directory
/ COPY A:*.* Copy all files from the diskette and
\ PC1441 -O install from PC1441.EXE
or or
/ COPY E:\ZIP\PC1441.ZIP Copy ZIP file from download directory and
\ PKUNZIP PC1441 -O install from PC1441.ZIP
CAL Run the program
If you already have an older version in the destination directory, you will
update PC, and preserve all of your appointments and options. Updates are
always automatically "upward-compatible"!
After installation, when you're satisfied PC is working, be sure to ALWAYS
store a copy of the PC1441.EXE or .ZIP archive file, just in case anything
happens to your disk. If you give PC to someone or upload it to a BBS, you
*must* give the original PC1441.EXE or .ZIP file only.
PROGRAM OPERATION
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To run PC, at the DOS prompt, type --
CAL
If under DOS 2, you must be in Personal Calendar's directory when you run the
program.
If under DOS 3 or later, PC may be run from any directory, either by including
the directory in your DOS PATH statement, or by including the drive and
directory name in front of the CAL command. For example:
D:\CALENDAR\CAL
or
PATH {your other directories ...} ;D:\CALENDAR;
CAL
If you have a laptop, you might get a better presentation with PC's monochrome
option:
CAL MONO
TSR MODE (POP UP/DOWN)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you are going to install Personal Calendar in its memory resident (TSR) mode
of operation, place the CAL command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. If you use any
of the following types of software, place the CAL command in AUTOEXEC.BAT,
positioned as follows:
AFTER a disk cache,
mouse driver, and
LAN workstation services software
and BEFORE a permanent menu system or shell
If you then want to activate PC from your menu or shell, configure your menu to
run the program CALPOPUP.COM. Then configure PC's Memory-Resident Options so
Automatic Pop Down is enabled, and Automatic Startup enabled with the name of
your appointment file.
WINDOWS 3.0 USERS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Loading Under Windows: PC is not a WinApp. It will run under Microsoft
Windows 3.0 as a DOS task, but not as a TSR.
Loading Before Windows: PC may also be loaded before Windows 3.0 in TSR
mode, and is entirely functional with one exception: if it pops up on
date/time, the system may hang; to prevent the hang, pop down with ShiftF10
before starting WIN, or disabling date/time pop up in Memory-Resident Options.
INSTALLATION FILES
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
See file PACKING.LST for a description and purpose of each installation file.
DOCUMENTATION
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Help Text in the program IS the users manual for Personal Calendar, and may
be consulted at any time from within the program by pressing F1 (function
key 1), or by selecting "Help" from the Main Menu.
Additionally, while viewing the Help Text, you may also print it by pressing
the * or PRINT key on your keyboard; or you can press F9 to generate a complete
formatted manual as a DOS file (CAL.DOC).
New features in recent versions of Personal Calendar are documented in the
HISTORY.DOC file, which may be printed from DOS with the PRINT command.
EVALUATING THE PROGRAM AND ORDERING A REGISTERED COPY
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You may try Personal Calendar for a 30-day period on an evaluation basis at no
charge.
If you continue to use the program after the evaluation period, please pay the
$35 license fee plus shipping and applicable sales tax (VA only). For credit
card orders, call 800-242-4775 (Australian customers, call (02) 519-4233), from
the CompuServe MALL (!GO SE), or online through the VOR or MB BBSs (see below).
For site license information and quantity discounts, see file SITELICE.DOC.
To order by mail, fill out the ORDER FORM and mail it with your payment to the
address shown (include shipping and tax if applicable). You can print the
ORDER FORM from within Personal Calendar at any time by pressing F8. Specify
3½" or 5¼" diskettes, and spell your name for your license.
WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU REGISTER
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When you mail in your license fee with the order form in file REGISTER.DOC,
I'll send you a diskette with your personal registration file CALSER.DAT, the
latest copy of the program, and a printed copy of the users manual.
To enable the registered mode for this version of Personal Calendar for DOS,
simply copy CALSER.DAT from the diskette to the directory in which you have
installed the program file CAL.EXE.
If you're updating from an earlier version of Personal Calendar, make sure your
CALSER.DAT file stays in the installation directory. If I've supplied you with
a newer CALSER.DAT file, make sure you use the latest one.
Please DO NOT modify the contents of CALSER.DAT, as doing so will invalidate
the registration data it contains.
DISTRIBUTION POLICY
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Personal Calendar may be distributed under the terms of the LIMITED
DISTRIBUTION LICENSE contained in file LICENSE.DOC. BBS SysOps please consult
file SYSOP.DOC for my policy on distribution of Personal Calendar by BBS. Disk
Vendors and user groups please consult file VENDOR.DOC.
You may not distribute the CALSER.DAT registration file to anyone not covered
by your software license.
IMPLEMENTATION
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PC is written in Microsoft Professional Development System (PDS) BASIC 7.10
and uses a number of support packages from MicroHelp, Inc, in Rosswell, GA:
Stay-Res Plus, Mach2, QB/Pro volumes 1-4, 5, 7, and Toolbox2. The program is
bound by MS LINK 5.10 under MS-DOS 5.00 on a Northgate 486/25. Source code
is not available.
MicroHelp is a supplier of programming aids/libraries for Microsoft BASIC
applications. If you are a BASIC programmer and find the TSR, performance, and
graphics capabilities interesting or useful, their phone number is 800-922-3383
or 404-552-0565.
IN CLOSING
~~~~~~~~~~
Enjoy Personal Calendar! I welcome discussion of my program or any related
topic, if you are interested. Contact me by mail, CompuServe mail, or phone as
shown at the top of this file. The latest version of Personal Calendar may be
obtained from your favorite disk vendor, or on the BBSs shown below. I make a
point of placing recent and major upgrades on these boards, and when released,
they are available there for download:
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On CompuServe IBMSYS, MSOPSYS, MSDOS, and ZENITH
On ZiffNet UTILFORUM
or on the following EXCELLENT support bulletin boards --
THE ELUSIVE DIAMOND THE VOR & MOTHERBOARD BBSs
(703) 323-6423 & -1782 (707) 778-8944 & -8841
Gregg Snyder, SysOp Vern & Julie Buerg, SysOps
("Main" Conference) (Either "Main" Conference)
THE BREAK EAST BBS THE TECHNICAL HANGOUT BBS
(703) 680-9269 (703) 444-6765
Bruce Jackson, SysOp Chip Chapman, SysOp
("PC" Conference) ("Personal-Cal" Conference)
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┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ PLEASE NOTE! You can be SURE you have received an authentic copy │
│ of Personal Calendar ONLY if the following message appears after │
│ extracting any, every, and all files from this archive. Please contact │
│ me if my exact authentication signature does not appear! Version 1.10 or │
│ later of PKUNZIP is required to reveal the authentication data; this is │
│ automatic for a self-extracting archive.) │
│ │
│ ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │
│ │
│ Exploding: CAL.EXE -AV <-- "-AV" appears on EVERY file │
│ │
│ Authentic files Verified! # NPU161 Paul Munoz-Colman <- this is my │
│ ~~~~~~ signature │
│ (the number must show exactly as above) │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
The contents of this archive are as follows (note the size and CRC-32 value on
file README.DOC will not be correct):
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PKZIP (R) FAST! Create/Update Utility Version 1.1 03-15-90
Copr. 1989-1990 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved. PKZIP/h for help
PKZIP Reg. U.S. Pat. and Tm. Off.
Searching ZIP: PC1441.ZIP - Personal Calendar (Executable), Version 14.41
Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
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115809 Stored 115809 0% 03-10-92 14:41 46a18403 --w CAL.EXE
21280 Implode 3589 84% 03-10-92 14:41 bdb2f94c --w CALERROR.DAT
83120 Implode 22797 73% 03-10-92 14:41 593bd93e --w CALHELP.DAT
5061 Implode 1986 61% 03-10-92 14:41 8aa69445 --w CALINIT.DAT
3960 Implode 1515 62% 03-10-92 14:41 2f872ade --w CALNAMES.DAT
12 Stored 12 0% 03-10-92 14:41 3560c47a --w CALPOPUP.COM
294 Shrunk 273 8% 03-10-92 14:41 2483ba9a --w CALREMOV.COM
17076 Implode 6880 60% 03-10-92 14:41 a21bf94e --w HISTORY.DOC
19979 Implode 7538 63% 03-10-92 14:41 26706acd --w LICENSE.DOC
12787 Implode 4477 65% 03-10-92 14:41 1f1abaf9 --w REGISTER.DOC
13328 Implode 5522 59% 03-10-92 14:41 1ae335d9 --w SHARWARE.DOC
5399 Implode 2454 55% 03-10-92 14:41 74839eed --w SITELICE.DOC
5533 Implode 2548 54% 03-10-92 14:41 9d30cff6 --w SYSOP.DOC
12068 Implode 5194 57% 03-10-92 14:41 768cc91f --w VENDOR.DOC
4321 Implode 2081 52% 03-10-92 14:41 79e6e1ee --w WARRANTY.DOC
62 Stored 62 0% 03-10-92 14:41 f05e9fd4 --w DESC.SDI
333 Implode 321 4% 03-10-92 14:41 7dd8938f --w FILE_ID.DIZ
3326 Implode 1602 52% 03-10-92 14:41 a5df2990 --w PACKING.LST
14992 Implode 6119 60% 03-10-92 14:41 b71f9ad0 --w README.DOC
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