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- WHAT IS THE POP CLOCK PROGRAM
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- Pop Clock is a memory resident program for the PC/XT/AT that allows the
- user to display (pop-up) the time in the upper right hand corner of the
- screen. The program also allows the user to set an alarm to beep at one
- of two tones for a given time.
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- Pop Clock was designed as advertising promotion and may be freely
- distributed in its original form with its original documentation by
- anyone that wishes without prior consent from:
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- Tulk Associates Software
- Personal Computer Services
- 13791 De Foe Ave. Sylmar, CA 91342
- (818)367-4127
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- INSTALLATION
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- To install the Pop Clock program simply enter PCLOCK at the DOS prompt.
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- The program may also be installed via the AUTOEXEC.BAT or other batch
- file if the user so desires (see Batch Commands in your DOS manual).
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- The program is self-checking to ensure that it is not installed more
- than once, but the method of checking for prior installation may be
- disrupted by the installation of other memory resident program(s) after
- Pop Clock has been installed.
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- A WORD ABOUT MEMORY RESIDENT PROGRAMS
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- The order of installation of any memory resident program is always an
- iffy situation. Every attempt has been made to ensure that the Pop
- Clock program behaves in a predictable fashion. If you are using other
- memory resident programs you may need to experiment with the order in
- which they are loaded. We suggest that you load Pop Clock first if you
- want to call the clock from within other resident programs otherwise
- Pop Clock may be loaded last.
-
- Some applications behave poorly when memory resident programs are
- installed or when they are used at the same time. If any of your
- application programs (word processor, etc.) do not function properly
- remove the memory resident program and reboot the system. We suggest
- that you use the memory resident program at the start of an application
- to insure that it coexist properly with the application.
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- HOW TO USE POP CLOCK
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- Whenever the clock is called to the screen an instruction bar will
- appear on the 24th line of the screen. This instruction bar lists all
- of the keys used in Pop Clock. For first time users the instructions
- are explained below.
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- TO ACTIVATE THE CLOCK simply press the ALT T key combination and the
- clock will appear in the upper right hand corner of the screen. To
- deactivate the clock and continue with what you were doing press the
- ESCAPE key.
-
- TO SET THE TIME call up the clock as described above. Press the F1
- function key. The word TIME will appear on top of the clock and the
- hour will start to flash. To change the hour use the arrow keys to
- increase (up arrow) or decrease (down arrow) the time by the desired
- amount. Hit the RETURN key and the minutes will start to flash, when
- minutes have been set hit the RETURN key again. The time is now set.
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- TO SET THE ALARM call up the clock as described above. Press the F2
- function key. The word ALARM will appear on top of the clock and the
- hour will start to flash. To change the hour use the arrow keys to
- increase (up arrow) or decrease (down arrow) the time by the desired
- amount. Hit the RETURN key and the minutes will start to flash, when
- minutes have been set hit the RETURN key again. The alarm is now set.
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- TO TURN ON THE ALARM call up the clock as described above. Press the
- F3 function key a musical note will appear under the time. The alarm
- is now on.
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- TO SELECT A TONE call up the clock as described above. If the alarm
- is not on (note under time is not displayed) press the F3 function
- key to turn it on. Press the F4 function key and the musical note
- under the time will change from a single note (low tone) to a double
- note (high tone). The tone is now selected.
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- TO TURN OFF THE ALARM calling up the clock as described above while
- the alarm is sounding will shut it off. If the clock is on the screen
- when the alarm sounds the F3 function key will shut it off. The alarm
- will turn off automatically after one minute.
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- HOW TO CHANGE THE HOT KEY USING DEBUG
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- You may find that the specified POP CLOCK Hot Key (Alt T) conflicts
- with other software usage. If this should be the case you may change
- the POP CLOCK Hot Key value using the DOS Debug program.
-
- The example shown below will change the value of the Hot Key from
- Alt T to Alt Z. The information within the [ brackets ] is displayed
- by Debug. The response text is normal and the *text are comments.
-
- A> debug pclock.com *load pclock.com into the
- *debug program and dump the
- [-]d 104 l2 *current hot key value, a
- *two byte code, 1st byte
- [nnnn:0104 14 00] *is auxiliary value and
- *2nd is the scan code.
- [-]e 104 *edit the auxiliary byte
- *value by replacing it
- [nnnn:0104 14.]2C *with the value for the
- *new key (Alt Z here)
- [-]n pclock.com *just to be safe, make
- *sure the name is still
- [-]w *pclock.com, and write
- *the file back to disk
- [writing 0C42 bytes] *confirm that all bytes
- *have been written and
- [-]q *quit the debugger
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- Please note the the program messages will still indicate Alt T as the
- Hot Key. If you wish to change them you may. Use the same procedure
- as above for locations nnnn:0CCC & nnnn:0D31 replacing each byte with
- the ASCII value of the new character (in hex).
-
- The following auxiliary byte hex values may be used to produce the
- Alt key combinations for their associated letters:
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- hex key hex key hex key
- value value value value value value
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- 10 Q 19 P 26 L
- 11 W 1E A 2C Z
- 12 E 1F S 2D X
- 13 R 20 D 2E C
- 14 T 21 F 2F V
- 15 Y 22 G 30 B
- 16 U 23 H 31 N
- 17 I 24 J 32 M
- 18 O 25 K
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