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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

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.
H 52  612  624  0     0     0     0   1 1     0     0     0     0     0     0     1HOn 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














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