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- PERSONAL CALENDAR (PC) FOR DOS Version 14.62
- FILE README.DOC 7 Oct 1993
-
- Introductory Information
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Copyright 1985-1993 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
- a full-featured 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
- 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. Personal Calendar also runs as a WinApp, in
- DOS Merge under UNIX, in a DESQview window, on a Mac under SoftPC, or in a DOS
- window under OS/2.
-
- A more complete product description and additional release information on
- Personal Calendar is contained in file DESCRIBE.DOC, and within the Users
- Manual once the program is in operation.
-
-
- PACKAGING
- ~~~~~~~~~
- Personal Calendar is distributed on a diskette, or on a Bulletin Board System
- (BBS) for downloading. Personal Calendar is packaged in a PKZIP
- "authenticated" compressed archive file.
-
- The file has one of two forms: a self extracting archive (EXE) or a normal
- archive file (ZIP), named as follows --
-
- PCAL1462.EXE Self-extracting ZIP file [diskette version]
- or PCAL1462.ZIP Normal ZIP file [BBS version]
-
- The number within the archive filename corresponds to the version number, in
- this case 14.62. (On CompuServe and ZiffNet, the file is named PERCAL.ZIP,
- with no version number.) You need PKWARE's PKUNZIP program (version 2.04g or
- later) to extract the product from the ZIP file. You need nothing extra to
- extract from the EXE file. There is no difference in the contents of either
- file.
-
-
- 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 (licensed) copy of
- Personal Calendar, and is the same for a new installation or an update.
-
- ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
- ║ 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"! ║
- ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
-
- 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
- \ PCAL1462 -O install from PCAL1462.EXE
- or or
- / COPY E:\ZIP\PCAL1462.ZIP Copy ZIP file from download directory and
- \ PKUNZIP PCAL1462 -O install from PCAL1462.ZIP
-
- CAL Run the program
-
- After installation, when you're satisfied PC is working, be sure to ALWAYS
- store a copy of the PCAL1462.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 PCAL1462.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
-
- In a DOS window under OS/2, use the following option:
-
- CAL OS2
-
-
- USERS MANUAL
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The User's Manual for Personal Calendar is implemented as context-sensitive
- help, 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 manual, you may also print it by pressing the *
- or PRINT key on your keyboard; or you can press F9 to write it to a completely
- formatted text file, which is then named 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.
-
-
- 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. * Note to LANTASTIC users: Lantastic 5.0 is compatible
- with this product only if you obtain and apply the SERVTSR.EXE correction,
- available from Artisoft.
-
-
- WINDOWS 3 USERS
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Loading Under Windows: PC will run under Microsoft Windows 3 as a DOS
- task, but TSR features are disabled. Windows PIF and ICO files are furnished
- for your convenience. PC will not automatically task-switch on an alarm. In
- enhanced mode, the supplied PIF file assigns Shift-Ctl-F10 as a default
- short-cut key to activate PC from a background state (similar to the TSR mode's
- default hot key).
-
- Loading Before Windows: PC may also be loaded before Windows 3 in TSR
- mode, is entirely functional as a TSR, but will not pop up over Windows.
-
-
- DESQVIEW USERS
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- DESQVIEW (DV) OPERATION. Although PC will run under DV as a TSR, it doesn't
- really make much sense to do so, thus it's recommended to run it normally. In
- the background, alarms and warnings "sound through" to the foreground window,
- slowed by multitasking. No automatic window switching takes place. File
- PC-PIF.DVP is provided for you to use as a DESQview Program Information File
- (PIF), with some included key parameters:
-
- Memory Size (in K): 295
- Max Memory Size (in K): 640
-
- Max Expanded Memory Size (in K): 640 (if using EMS swapping as a TSR)
- Text Pages: 1
- Graphics Pages: 0
- Writes text directly to screen: Y
- Displays graphics information: N
- Virtualize text/graphics (Y,N,T): T
- Close on exit (Y,N,blank): N (if using DOS shell or TSR mode)
- Uses its own colors: Y
-
-
- INSTALLATION FILES
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- See file PACKING.LST for a description and purpose of each installation file.
-
-
- 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 purchase
- the product and pay the $35 license fee ($15 for upgrades to existing
- registrations) plus shipping and applicable sales tax (VA only). For credit
- card orders, call 800-242-4775 (Australian customers,
-
- call (02) 519-4233), from CompuServe's Shareware Registration Service (!GO
- SWREG, items #280 and #510), or online through the VOR or MB BBSs (see below).
- For upgrade or site license information and quantity discounts, see file
- REGISTER.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 (file ORDER.FRM) from Personal Calendar at any time by pressing F8.
- Specify 3½" or 5¼" diskettes, and spell your name for your license.
-
-
- BENEFITS OF REGISTERING
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- When we receive your registration order and payment, we'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. As a bonus, we'll also send
- you information on various special offers, and selected utilities.
-
- The registered version suppresses all registration reminders and order prompts,
- and lets you optionally suppress the startup screen. To enable the registered
- mode, simply copy file 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 we'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 our 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.
-
-
- IN CLOSING
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- Enjoy Personal Calendar! We welcome discussion of this product or any related
- topic, if you are interested. Contact us 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. We make a
- point of placing recent and major upgrades on these boards, and when released,
- they are available there for download:
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- On CompuServe IBMSYS, MSDOS, and ZENITH
-
- On ZiffNet TIPS, PBSAPPS
-
- or on the following EXCELLENT support bulletin boards --
-
- THE ELUSIVE DIAMOND THE VOR & MOTHERBOARD BBSs
- (703) 323-6423 & -1782 (707) 778-8944 & -8841
- Doug Sylvester, SysOp Vern & Julie Buerg, SysOps
- Userid "PC CAL", ("OPEN ORDER" to Register)
- Password "FUNSTUFF"
-
- THE BREAK EAST BBS THE CONSULTANT BBS THE BREAK WEST BBS
- (703) 680-9269 (718) 837-3236 (916) 727-3007
- Bruce Jackson, SysOp Jay Caplan, SysOp Jim Thompson, SysOp
- ("PC" Conference) (Main Conference) ("Pers Calendar" Conference)
-
- and to contact me by Internet: 71141.1224@CompuServe.Com
- or: Paul.Munoz-Colman@Consultant.Com
-
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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 │
- │ us if the exact authentication signature does not appear! Version 2.04g │
- │ of PKUNZIP is required to reveal the authentication data; this is │
- │ automatic for a self-extracting archive.) │
- │ │
- │ ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │
- │ │
- │ Inflating: CAL.EXE -AV <-- "-AV" appears on EVERY file │
- │ │
- │ Authentic files Verified! # NPU161 <-- this is the signature │
- │ Paul Munoz-Colman ~~~~~~ │
- │ (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 2.04g 02-01-93
- Copr. 1989-1993 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved. Registered Version
- PKZIP Reg. U.S. Pat. and Tm. Off. Patent No. 5,051,745
-
- ■ 80486 CPU detected.
- ■ EMS version 4.00 detected.
- ■ XMS version 3.00 detected.
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- Searching ZIP: PCAL1462.ZIP - Personal Calendar (Executable), Version 14.62
-
- Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
- ------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- -------- ---- ----
- 117261 DeflatX 115813 2% 10-07-93 10:07 511293ae --w- CAL.EXE
- 21280 DeflatX 3225 85% 10-07-93 10:07 39e3271f --w- CALERROR.DAT
- 83120 DeflatX 21241 75% 10-07-93 10:07 6b0cc72b --w- CALHELP.DAT
- 4706 DeflatX 1715 64% 10-07-93 10:07 899b0b21 --w- CALINIT.DAT
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- 294 DeflatX 259 12% 10-07-93 10:07 2483ba9a --w- CALREMOV.COM
- 766 DeflatX 167 79% 10-07-93 10:07 9983c5e7 --w- CAL.ICO
- 545 DeflatX 161 71% 10-07-93 10:07 bef390c8 --w- CAL.PIF
- 416 DeflatX 122 71% 10-07-93 10:07 d38f0598 --w- PC-PIF.DVP
- 5606 DeflatX 2078 63% 10-07-93 10:07 b636ea1c --w- ORDER.FRM
- 10212 DeflatX 4286 59% 10-07-93 10:07 6eaf326c --w- DESCRIBE.DOC
- 20315 DeflatX 7702 63% 10-07-93 10:07 6327f0fc --w- HISTORY.DOC
- 21733 DeflatX 7822 65% 10-07-93 10:07 9e98a75a --w- LICENSE.DOC
- 13339 DeflatX 4791 65% 10-07-93 10:07 5395bb95 --w- REGISTER.DOC
- 13362 DeflatX 5397 60% 10-07-93 10:07 27db2889 --w- SHARWARE.DOC
- 3129 DeflatX 1443 54% 10-07-93 10:07 2823ad6b --w- SYSOP.DOC
- 4176 DeflatX 1792 58% 10-07-93 10:07 8d0d620a --w- VENDOR.DOC
- 382 DeflatX 289 25% 10-07-93 10:07 b13de2d4 --w- FILE_ID.DIZ
- 3557 DeflatX 1521 58% 10-07-93 10:07 4aa1558c --w- PACKING.LST
- 17188 DeflatX 6758 61% 10-07-93 10:07 18f79515 --w- README.DOC
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