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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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- ║ Reston, VA 22090-4526 USA │ CompuServe 71141,1224 │ or !GO SE (the MALL) ║
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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:
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 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)
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ │
- │ 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):
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 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
- ------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- ------ ---- ----
- 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
- ------ ------ --- -------
- 338740 190779 44% 19
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