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WHEN is a companion program to TODAY. Where TODAY tells you what
happened on a particular date, WHEN searches all the TODAY date
files for a key word or phrase tht you supply and tells you when
that particular person or event caused something of note in
history.
The program is particularly easy to use, you simply enter the
word WHEN followed by the word(s) you wish to search for. If you
want to know when Mozart was born you enter: TODAY MOZART
UPPER/lower case does not matter. If you want to search on a
phrase, you must enclose it in double quotes( "San Francisco").
You do not need to enter an entire word when searching. It is
often better to enter only the root portion of a word where it
might have different endings. For example, "treat" would match
on "treat", "treaty", "treaties", even "retreat". You will often
find that using this partial word technique that you will often
get some suprising results.
SYNTAX
WHEN searchstring { ALTFN filename / DIR directory / MONO }
As stated earlier the search string can be in upper or lower case
and must be enclosed in double quotes(") for multiple words.
ALTFN is followed by an alternate database filename such as MUSIC
and will then search that database instead of the TODAY files.
Note, when searching the TODAY files, TODAY.OWN is also searched.
If you put in everyone's birthdays, anniversaries etc, you can
quickly look them up by entering WHEN and a name.
DIR followed by a directory path tells WHEN where to look for the
files to search. By default, WHEN looks in the current directory
and in the directory pointed to by the TODAY environment
variable. (See TODAY.DOC).
MONO forces WHEN to display in monochrome in case the program
thinks you have a color monitor but it's really monochrome.
That's it. Have fun with the program!
And remember...
We call it software because we cannot keep it up!