Millennium-III

Introduction:
This is another countdown to the year 2000 util.
But Millennium-III can be put anywhere on the Workbench,
since you can give it coordinates where it should appear.
Or put it on any screen, or just let it print the text to CLI instead.

It also have a little surprise when year 2000 starts!
And 24hrs after 2000 it starts to countdown to the 3rd Millennium (2001),
the same surprise will pop up when 2001 starts :-)
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Requirements:
Non really, but a battery backed-up clock would be nice :-)

Installation:
Just copy it where you want it,
or put it in the WBStartup drawer (prefered).
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Workbench usage:
Just double click the icon.
You may also want to set the tooltypes:

TOP=x
Where x is how many pixels from the top of the screen,
that Millennium-III should put it's window.

LEFT=x
Where x is how many pixels from the left of the screen,
that Millennium-III should put it's window.

PUBSCREEN=x
Where x is the name of a public screen.

If you put Millennium-III in WBStartup, remeber to use the
DONOTWAIT tooltype, this prevents Workbench from waiting
for a program to finish.

Other Workbench specific tooltypes like DONOTWAIT etc can be used,
read your WB manual for more info on these special tooltypes.
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CLI usage:
Same as for Workbench, the same "ToolTypes" can be entered from cli.
From CLI there is also a NOGUI option,
when using this Millennium-III will print a line of text and quit.

You can enter the TOP and LEFT values directly, example:
C:2000 11 305 PUBSCREEN="DW Screen0"

IF NOGUI is used then TOP, LEFT and PUBSCREEN will be ignored.
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History:
v1.0 First release!

v2.0 Added REAL countdown to 3rd Millennium,
     plus some minor internal improvements.
     Big thanks to "Nick Waterman <nick@cimio.co.uk>"
     for his details/info/history on years and millennias.

v2.1 Fixed some bad coding, now it should countdown properly to 2001,
     thanks to "Randall Blank <rblank@bigfoot.com>" for noticing that.
     Cleaned up the code and docs a bit.

v2.2 Millennium-III always started with a active window,
     thanks to "Ian King <IANKING1@compuserve.com>" for noticing,
     and informing me of the correct way to spell Millennium.

v2.3 Changed the CLI/SHELL message a bit.
     Before year 2000 the line of text is 2000: blabla
     And after that it will be Millennium-III: blabla
     Oh yeah! Fixed up the docs a bit (cli usage).
     It seems that Millennium-III was called Millennium-II
     some places in both the docs and the program, it's fixed now.
     Version string was 2.1, fixed it.
     That's it, unless bugs are found this will be the last release.
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Disclaimer:
Millennium-III is Freely Distributable FreeWare,
use at your own risk.

Permission granted for any use:
CD-ROM publication (Fred Fish, Aminet, etc.) and you may put it on
magazine coverdisks without notifying me at all.
In other words do what you want with it as long as you do not charge
anything for the program it self.
Please keep this text with the program, the same goes for the icon.
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© Msi Software 1997
Roger Hågensen <msi@sn.no>
http://www.sn.no/~msi/index.htm