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- What is REMINDER?
-
- Did You ever forget your best friend's birthday? Hopefully this will
- not happen again with REMINDER.
-
- REMINDER reads a text file with your important dates and displays
- everything that lies within a user selectable range in a window.
- By default REMINDER will show your dates for the next 10 days.
- The power of this program is its simplicity.
-
- REMINDER is distributed as CardWare. If You like it, send a nice
- picture postcard.
-
- Installation
-
- Copy REMINDER.EXE to your Windows directory and install it with program
- manager. You will also need the VBRUN100.DLL runtime library somewhere
- on your DOS path. You will find this library on every Win*Net BBS.
- Copy the REMINDER.DAT to the same directory where REMINDER.EXE is located.
-
- I would strongly advise you to put REMINDER.EXE into your RUN= statement.
-
- Operation
-
- REMINDER has five buttons:
-
- 'Thank you' terminates the program. This is the default.
- 'Change' calls the editor (default: notepad) with your REMINDER.DAT file.
- 'Rescan' re-reads REMINDER.DAT.
- 'Options' call the REMINDER's option panel.
- 'Info' displays information about REMINDER.
-
- Please note, that REMINDER.DAT has to be in the current directory, when
- REMINDER is started. If it cannot find the file, it will display an error
- message and terminate. Notepad has to be in your path if you want to use
- it from within REMINDER.
-
- Format of REMINDER.DAT
-
- Each date you would like to remember has to be on a separate line.
- The format of this line is year month day text. Leadings spaces are
- ignored. Example:
-
- 91 12 18 Call George to confirm contract
- 1991 12 20 Check savings account
-
- A zero is a wildcard. These will trigger reminders every year or month.
-
- 0 12 6 Guess what !
- 0 5 10 Volker Weber's birthday. Don't forget to send a card.
- 0 0 25 Pay next month's rent.
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- Do not insert empty lines or commas within REMINDER.DAT
-
- Options
-
- This is new to version 1.2. You can set up a range of days and
- select your favorite (windows) editor. You might as well leave
- everything at the default. If you have trouble finding the data
- file with the Change button, you can specify the path to your
- reminder.dat.
-
- The option panel has four input fields:
-
- - from day: defaults to -1 (i.e. yesterday)
- - to day: defaults to 10
- - editor: defaults to notepad.exe
- - reminders: defaults to reminders.dat
-
- REMINDER does not perform any error checking. It simply is a 'Garbage
- in - garbage out' setup. If you specify 'from tomorrow 'til yesterday'
- that's exactly what you will get: nothing.
-
- If REMINDER cannot find the editor you specified, it will display an
- error message and terminate.
-
- Clicking on the reminders input field displays a files select panel,
- which is pretty much straightforward.
-
- The options panel has four buttons:
-
- - Cancel: close options panel
- - Default: set everything back to default
- - Temporary: close options panel and rescan REMINDER.DAT with the
- new settings
- - Permanent: same as 'Temporary'. Write Settings to WIN.INI. REMINDER
- will read the settings from WIN.INI next time.
-
- WIN.INI will contain five new lines after you selected 'permanent' for
- the first time. They could look like this
-
- [Reminder]
- EditorName=notepad.exe
- FromDate=-1
- ToDate=10
- Reminders=d:\reminder\reminder.dat
-
- If you painted yourself into a corner with the options panel, press
- 'Default' and 'Permanent'. If all else fails, remove the lines in the
- [Reminder] section of WIN.INI.
-
-
- De-Installation instructions
-
- I don't think you will ever need it. But, just in case:
-
- delete REMINDER.EXE
- delete REMINDER.DOC
- deLete REMINDER.DAT
- remove the five lines from WIN.INI
-
-
- License
-
- You may copy or distribute REMINDER as long as you do not charge
- anything for it - I strongly encourage you to do so.
-
- There is one thing I wolud like you to do. If you like this program
- and continue to use it, please send a postcard to my adress:
-
- Volker Weber
- Kahlertstr. 32
- 6100 Darmstadt
- Germany
-
- If you like to donate any money, please feel free to do that as well.
- By sending me your postcard you will implicitly acquire a lifetime
- license to use this program. This seems a reasonable price to me. I
- am very much looking forward to receiving cards from all over the
- world. Thank you.
-
-
- Waranty
-
- This program takes up valuable space on your precious harddisk, although
- not very much. That's all. No other waranties implied or expressed.
-
-
- Revision History
-
- 1.5 Fixed a minor bug in the file section routine and the behaviour
- of the timer.
-
- 1.4 Reminder now rereads its datafile when the date changes. If it
- finds any reminders for the day, it returns its display from
- iconized to normal view and sounds the speaker.
-
- Reminder now auto-iconizes after one minute if did not find any
- reminders for the day.
-
- Changed the main display to list box which enables 100
- reminders per day.
-
- Reminder now sorts the display.
-
- Added day of week to display. Added todays date to display.
-
- 1.3 Added option to specify the path to your datafile.
-
- 1.2 Added option panel.
- Set up your favourite editor.
- Set up date interval.
-
- 1.1 Minor Bugfix
-
- 1.0 Initial Release
-
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- Have fun with this little program
-
- Volker Weber Darmstadt, November 1991
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- Moderator WINDOWS.GER
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