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- DOCUMENTATION FOR SCHEDULE.BAS
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- PROGRAM WRITTEN BY:
- MOHAMMAD ALTUFAIF
- #71046,1025
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- Schedule.bas allows you to set and organize your appointments or
- activities that you want to do. You can write your appointments or activities
- for the whole year. There is room provided for each day of the year. Each day
- can hold your activities from 6 o'clock in the morning till 10 o'clock at night
- for each half hour.
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- REQUIREMENTS:
- Double sided disk, color graphics card (see below for monochrome card
- modification)
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- RECOMMENDED HARDWARE:
- 2 double sided drives, or a drive and a harddisk
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- HOW TO BEGIN USING THIS PROGRAM:
- Because of the large file needed to hold this immense amount of data,
- you need an empty diskette to hold the 289k file created. The program works
- best on a 2 disk drive system.
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- If You Have 2 Disk Drives:
- -Save the program on a diskette at drive A (usually along with your other Basic
- Programs.)
- -Put an empty formatted disk on drive b.
- -Load Basic. (Basic is supposedly on drive a)
- -Load SCHEDULE.BAS and run it.
- The program assumes that the data file SCD is on drive B
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- If You Have One Disk Drive
- -Modify line 100 into: 100 DRIVE$="A:"
- -Load BASIC
- -Load SCHEDULE.BAS
- -Remove your diskette and put an empty formatted disk on the drive.
- -Run the program SCHEDULE.BAS
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- Needless to say, you only format the diskette the first time you are using the
- program, or you will erase your data each time you format it.
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- HOW TO USE THIS PROGRAM:
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- Upon running the program, you will see the first screen of the program.
- You can select any of the 8 options you have. But before doing anything, you
- must initialize your data file. This can be easily accomplished by choosing
- option #3. Remember that you only have to do this the first time you use the
- program. If there are any data in the data file,it will all be erased. After
- initializing the data file, you can choose any of the options from 1 to 8.
- Initializing the file is a process that takes a long time to complete,
- but you only need to do it once.
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- EXPLANATIONS OF THE 8 OPTIONS:
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- OPTION 1: Allows you to see the activities that you scheduled some time ago.
- When you strike 1, you will be asked to enter the month name (not the month
- number) and the day at which you want to see the activities. Note that you
- do not have to type the whole name of the month.
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- Example: If you want to see the activities scheduled on the 5th of April, you
- enter the letter A, then P. The program will assume that you wanted to enter
- April, so it will directly prints April, and then asks you for the day. Now
- type 5, then strike (ENTER.) If you wanted to select another month, say
- December, enter 0 at the "Which day" prompt. Now you press d and the program
- will assume that you wanted to enter the month December. The Last line at the
- bottom always displays your options along with some suggestions.
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- After the program displays the activities scheduled at the specified date, you
- have the options to:
- -See the activities of the next day by pressing the Pg Dn key
- -See the activities of the day before by pressing the Pg Up key
- -Write activities by pressing W (see option 2)
- -Go to the main screen by striking any other key
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- OPTION 2: Allows you to write activities. After entering the month and the
- day, you will see a menu displaying the activities scheduled for the specified
- date if any. You will see the time 6:00 highlighted. Now select any time of
- that day by pressing the up or down arrow, then press ENTER. Now type your
- activity (up to 25 characters only). When finished, press ENTER. Now the
- next TIME will be highlighted. If you want to write activity at this time,
- press ENTER and repeat the procedure, otherwise choose the appropriate time.
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- These are the options that you have during this writing mode:
- -Up and Down arrow: Allows you to select the time at which you want to write
- your activity.
- -End: Saves your activities and takes you to the main screen
- -R : Switches you to the Reading mode. This is helpful when you want to see
- or write at the next or the preceded day.
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- Note:
- 1-Those above options can not be selected while you are typing an activity.
- 2-You can not write directly to the next or the proceeded day. You must first
- switch to the Reading Mode by pressing R, and then use the PgUp or PgDn, then
- switch to the Writing Mode by pressing W
- 3-Pressing ENTER after writing at the time 1:30 will not automatically takes
- you up to 2:OO time. Press the Down key to go there.
- 4-The WRITING mode can be accessed by either striking 2 at the main screen, or
- striking W when at the READING mode.
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- OPTION 3: Allows you to initialize the data file: This should be done the first
- time you are using the program. Initializing the 9000 records contained in the
- data file takes a long time to complete. A beep will indicates that the
- initialization is complete.
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- OPTION 4: Changes the default drive at which the data file resides.
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- OPTION 5: Clears part of data. Suppose that you want to erase all the activi-
- ties during a certain period. You select the date this period begins, and the
- date it ends. A beep will indicate that the erasing is finished.
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- OPTION 6: Add a constant occurring activity for a certain period of time.
- This is helpful if there are some activities that you do every day. For
- example you may want to assign to time 6:00 the activity (WAKE UP.) or assign
- at time 12:00 the activity (LUNCH.), and so on.
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- OPTION 7: Print A Certain Day Schedule. This option prints a certain day
- schedule, supporting the I.B.M/Epson's dot matrix printers.
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- OPTION 8: Ends the program. Pressing Esc will do the same thing.
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- UNDOCUMENTED FEATURE: Pressing PgUp at the Main Screen will show the last
- screen you have just escaped from. PgDn will return you back to the Main
- screen.This may be helpful if you have just got out of a screen, and decided
- to glance on it after you got to the main screen
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- IF YOU HAVE THE MONOCHROME CARD:
- Modify the program by erasing the SCREEN functions, and modifying line
- 140 so that check=2. This can be easily achieved on your word processor, using
- the search and replace functions. All the graphics done on the card.
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- IF YOU HAVE THE COLOR GRAPHICS CARD:
- If you have a color monitor, play around with the COLOR function to
- set the colors you prefer. Be aware that there are a lot of highlighting and
- video reversing. The Search and Replace function in your word processor will
- be of a great help. If you have a white and black monitor like me, well, you
- are lucky 'cause you do not need to modify or set any color.
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- NOTES:
- -The diskette that contains the data file should not contain any other files.
- There is just no room for any other file unless you are running DOS2.?
- -The program does not check to see if your day falls on the month you specify
- or not. If, for example you specified April, 31 to write your activities,
- your data will be saved under may, 1st because April is 30 days long.
- -Each year, line 896 should be changed to reflect the current year. The
- default value is the year 1984.
- -Running the Program under BASICA is preferable.
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- -Any one is welcomed to compile the program or improve it, then upload it
- again to the Compuserve software library.
- -Send your comments, bug findings, or suggestions via EMAIL.