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DATES.DOC
06/18/94
This program keeps track of birthdays, anniversaries, coming events, etc giving
you advance warning so you can send out cards, leave town, etc. By default, the
warning is for any event happening in the next 14 days but you can change this
if you want.
This program can be included in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to provide notices
every time you turn on your PC.
The input file for this program is typically called DATES.TXT but it can be
anything. The file is a simple ASCII text file, maintained with any text
editor, that contains date records in the following format:
cols 1- 8 date in mm/dd/yy format
10-on description of event
Any blank line or any line which begins with a semi-colon is ignored by the
program.
For the date itself, all characters are required and fields should be
0-filled if necessary (e.g. use "01/01/92" instead of "1/1/92"). The month
*has* to be filled in. The day and year portions can be "xx" if desired. If a
day is "xx", you will be given the notice for the entire month and for 15 days
before the start of the month.
For dates which vary from year to year (e.g. Thanksgiving), you can either use
the "xx" option for the day or revise the file every year.
Records in the file don't have to be in any particular order but dates are
presented in the order they appear in the file so putting them in chronological
order makes the most sense.
A sample DATES.TXT file is provided and consists of the following lines:
01/01/xx New Year's Day
01/15/xx Est tax due
04/15/xx Est tax due + regular taxes
05/10/xx -ish Mother's Day
05/30/xx -ish Memorial Day
05/31/57 Bruce Guthrie
06/15/xx Est tax due
06/15/xx -ish Father's Day
07/04/xx July 4th
09/15/xx Est tax due
11/xx/xx Thanksgiving
11/11/xx Veteran's Day
12/25/xx Christmas
Syntax:
DATES date_file [ days | /Ddays ] [ /-A | /A ] [ /? ]
where:
"date_file" is the name of the input text file. It can contain drive and path
information if desired. This defaults to DATES.TXT.
"days" (or "/Ddays") are the number of days in advance you want the warning.
Defaults to 14. Note that generic days ("11/xx/xx") are not affected by this
setting; you automatically get the notice 14 days before the beginning of the
month.
"/A" shows the age of the event when it's printed. This is only done for
entries that have a specific year. This is the default.
"/-A" skips showing the age of the event. The default is /A.
"/?" or "/HELP" or "HELP" gives you syntactical help.
Writer:
This program was written by Bruce Guthrie of Wayne Software. It is free for use
and redistribution provided relevant documentation is kept with the program, no
changes are made to the program or documentation, and it is not bundled with
commercial programs or charged for separately. People who need to bundle it in
for-sale packages must pay a $50 registration fee to "Wayne Software" at the
following address.
Additional information about this and other Wayne Software programs can be found
in the file BRUCEymm.DOC which should be included in the original ZIP file.
("ymm" is replaced by the last digit of the year and the two digit month of the
release. BRUCE312.DOC came out in December 1993. This same naming convention
is used in naming the ZIP file that this program was included in.) Comments and
suggestions can also be sent to:
Bruce Guthrie
Wayne Software
113 Sheffield St.
Silver Spring, MD 20910
fax: (301) 588-8986
Foreign users: Please provide an Internet e-mail address in all correspondence.