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- PC-Plus DayPlan Version 1.3
- ___________________________
-
- DayPlan is a memory resident pop-up day diary with built in alarm
- clock. It's primary use is for appointments and reminders but can
- be used merely as a note pad. The alarm clock can be used for a
- once only call or repeated the same time every day. Appointments
- can be entered for up to three weeks in advance and are held for
- one week and one day before discarded.
-
- DayPlan is designed to operate from hard disk and INSTALLH.BAT
- should be used to install it. INSTALLF.BAT gives instructions on
- how you can use RAMDISK or VDISK to allow DayPlan to work on
- systems without a hard disk.
-
- INSTALLH will create a DAYPLAN directory in the root directory of
- the C: drive. This directory will contain the following:
-
- DAYPLAN.COM This is the program.
- DAYPLAN.DAT This contains all the data entered into DayPlan.
- DAYPLAN.ALM This contains the current alarm time.
-
- Load DayPlan into memory by entering \DAYPLAN\DAYPLAN. This is
- the command that should be inserted into the AUTOEXEC.BAT
- immediately after KEYBUK (which should be first).
-
- After DayPlan has been loaded it can be activated by pressing ALT
- and the ESC keys simultaneously. The following keys apply within
- DayPlan:
-
- PgUp ... Step on one day PgDn ... Step Back one Day
- Home ... Return to today Ins .... Insert alarm time
- Del ... Delete alarm time * End .... End alarm sound
- Esc .... Exit DayPlan
-
- * this also silences the alarm if sounding. Use this for a once
- only call.
-
- The arrow keys can be used to position the cursor.
-
- F1 key will display the above key information.
-
-
-
- Features and Quirks
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-
- DayPlan operates in ultra safe mode. This means that it will wait
- until it is completely safe before doing anything important like
- popping up at inconvenient times (for DOS) or writing to disk
- whilst another program is doing the same. Ninety nine percent of
- the time things will happen immediately but don't be surprised if
- they don't. Using BREAK ON will speed things up.
-
- On the subject of disk access, this is a very tricky thing from a
- memory resident program and the last thing you want to happen is
- for a wrong disk to be inserted or unformatted or missing. This
- is why DayPlan will only work on the C: drive.
-
- When DayPlan is first loaded it loads its data and adjusts it by
- dropping off the first day until the first day is one week and
- one day from today (Got That?). This means that it does not
- expect you to be travelling back in time ie. todays date must be
- the same as the data on disk or greater. If you have been playing
- around with the system date then DayPlan may come up with an
- error next time you load it. If this happens you will need to use
- DEBUG to change the first five bytes in the DAYPLAN.DAT. The
- first byte is the day of the month, then the month and the next
- two are the year and the fifth is the day of the week. Setting
- all these to zero will blank all days. I don't recommend playing
- around with these bytes unless you have to.
-
- As DayPlan picks up the date and time from the system clock, it
- must be set correctly. So if you have a computer without a real
- time clock then you must have DATE and TIME in the AUTOEXEC.BAT.
-
- DayPlan will not update itself whilst loaded ie. if you change
- the date or cross to the next day pressing Home will still return
- to the day it was installed in memory until rebooted.
-
- DayPlan will only pop-up whilst in 40 or 80 column text mode
- using page 0, except for monochrome adapters. If it cannot pop-up
- it will beep at you, this will also silence the alarm if it is
- sounding.
-
- The alarm will sound for one minute if not silenced.
-
- Share and enjoy.
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- Steve Thomas 02 Jul 1988
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