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- Today In History V1.0 by Jon Radoff
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- This is a Today in history program which may be used to give something
- interesting to look at while you are booting up your system, or as a
- a text file which could be displayed on a bulletin board system.
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- This program uses data files which are based on a data format
- and content used by Patrick Kincaid in his program TODAY-PC.
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- To run Today in History, you need to have previously assigned a logical
- directory named "TODAY:" and have put all of the data files in this
- directory. The data files it will be looking for are the Today.* files
- (where * is all the three letter month extenders, such as AUG for August).
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- Just type "Today" at the CLI or have the command executed in a script file.
- Today in History will then think for a few seconds, and then display some
- text outlining a bunch of important dates from history that happened on the
- same date as today.
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- To run Today in History in a BBS environment, you'll need to have a way to
- execute a script file at a daily maintenance time... With the Paragon BBS
- system, this is easily done by editing your event scheduler accordingly to
- add a script file which is run around midnight. This script file should
- contain a couple of lines somewhat like this:
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- assign TODAY: dh1:today ;Assign Today's logical directory
- Today >dh1:bbs/bulletins/Bul3.TXT ;Redirect Today's screen to bulletin #3
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- To add a date to Today In History's data files, find the file which you
- need to add the date to by looking at the Today data file extenders (AUG for
- August, SEP for September, etc).
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- You may then add a line in the following format:
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- S06071839 The Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed.
- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
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- | | | | | +- The text to be displayed on this date.
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- | | | | +- Qualifier field (*)
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- | | | +- Year. Put in leading zeros if less than the year 1000.
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- | | +- Day of the month, requires leading 0 if it is less than 10.
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- | +- Month, requires leading 0 if it is less than 10.
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- +- A character which may be '*', 'S', 'R', or 'B'. Anything starting with a
- '*' is ignored. 'S' means the date is a special event. 'R' means it is
- an annual type event (like a holiday). 'B' means it is a birthday.
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- * The qualifier field is normally a space, however, it may be a few other
- things as well: When it is the letter "C", it means that it is a
- continuation from the previous date, so the year field should not be
- redisplayed. It may also be a number from 0 to 6 for a day of the week
- on which this will only be shown on (0 is Sunday, 1 is Monday, etc.).
- See the November data file to see some good examples of this (it shows
- how the U.S. Election Day can be correctly determined).
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- This is another public domain utility by myself... So far, my only other
- PD program for the Amiga is ParseLst, the Amiga version of the popular
- MS-DOS FidoNet nodelist compiler.
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- Also, don't miss the Paragon BBS system, coming very soon. Zmodem with
- CRC-32, batch, and resume, full FidoNet support, online Doors, and much more.
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- I may be contacted in the following ways:
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- PLINK: Jon Radoff
- BBS: 508/393-3875
- FidoNet: Jon Radoff @ 1:322/545
- US Mail: Jon Radoff, 18 Charina Road, Northboro, MA 01532
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