PC-Plus DayPlan Version 1.3
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     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.



     Steve Thomas                                          02 Jul 1988