Ample Notice V 1.3 Revised 8/4/89 (c) Copyright 1987, 1988, 1989 by Mark Harris All rights reserved. The main programs on this disk are: AN.EXE - the appointments calendar program, ALARM.COM - the pop-up alarm clock, OUTSIDE.COM - an evelope addresser which takes addresses from screen or file. To get started using AN and ALARM first make a backup copy of this disk, then print the AN manual. The manual has about 27 pages and can be printed in its entirety by entering PRINTMAN AN.DOC To skip the first 4 pages and print the rest of the manual, type PRINTMAN AN.DOC 4 To view the manual on the screen use the /S option; e.g. PRINTMAN/S AN.DOC 2 The documentation for OUTSIDE is in the file OUTSIDE.DOC. You can print or view this file in a similar way: PRINTMAN OUTSIDE.DOC PRINTMAN/S OUTSIDE.DOC Ample Notice installation is described in AN.DOC. The basic idea is to put the Ample Notice disk in the default drive, then type ANSETUP. If you are updating an earlier version of Ample Notice, see AN12TO13.DOC. You can use PRINTMAN as with the other DOC files described above. If you are not a registered user of Ample Notice, we encourage your registration. Granny's Old-Fashioned Software is a member organization of the Association of Shareware Professionals and endorses its high standards for Shareware distribution and support. If you obtained Ample Notice from a disk catalog or bulletin board, Granny's does not receive a cent from the amount you paid. We rely on your registrations to keep going - please see details below. If you are a registered user of a previous version of Ample Notice you may obtain the new printed manual for $3 (foreign: $5) from Granny's. Changes from version 1.23 include: Appointments can be set for every nth day, week or month with starting and ending dates specified. Cyclical appointments can be activated on workdays only. A note filing system has been added so that only notes in a given category are viewed. Appointments can be filtered so that only those containing a given string are shown. A 7-column calendar-style printout option for appointments has been added. Instead of giving an ending date for printouts if the word PAGE is typed, the printout will stop after one page. A color installation program has been added. The advance alarm time can be stored with an appointment - for example, \(45) 7/17/89 4:00 xxx will set the alarm for 3:15. A point-and-shoot option has been added for adding multiple occurrences of the same appointment which don't fit into patterns otherwise provided. You can point to days on a pop-up calendar and an appointment is copied with the designated date. The default location of the notes file has been changed from the root directory to the directory from which AN.EXE was loaded. This means you can put all your Ample Notice files in one subdirectory without having to create a CONFIG.CAL file. These changes are described in the manual (printed or disk version). If you are using a previous version of AN, please read the file AN12TO13.DOC, which contains instructions for modifying your current NOTES and CONFIG.CAL files. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ample Notice is Shareware. You can order the current Ample Notice disk from Granny's Old-Fashioned Software for $10 or a registered package for $30. Registration provides the following benefits: 1. A current version of the Ample Notice disk. 2. A printed manual. 3. A mail-in card for a future version of Ample Notice. 4. Telephone support for your technical questions. 5. A reasonable likelihood that features you request will be added to the package if such features are deemed practical and of sufficiently general interest. Registrations keep us in business - please consider this option. To register, phone (with MC or VISA) (704) 264-6906 or mail payment to: Granny's Old-Fashioned Software Rt 4, Box 216 Boone, NC 28607 North Carolina residents please add 5%; foreign orders add $3. Foreign: MC, VISA or U.S. funds drawn on U.S. bank, please. _______ ____|__ | (tm) --| | |------------------- | ____|__ | Association of | | |_| Shareware |__| o | Professionals -----| | |--------------------- |___|___| MEMBER ------------------------------------------------------------------ SITE LICENSING For five or more users at a single site the following licensing arrangements are available: Registration only: $10/user, Registration with printed manual and current disk: $15/user. For large sites licensing costs are lower; call us to negotiate. Also available from Granny's is LQ, a program for the IBM PC and compatible computers which will allow you to produce high- quality text in a variety of fonts and modes on 9-pin dot matrix printers. LQ can be 'locked' into memory to function inconspicuously with your favorite word processor or other program. The program includes a print spooler which can be set to any length from 1 - 400K characters. The spooler has been customized to work with LQ's long graphics sequences very efficiently (using about 1/40 the space required by a conventional spooler); you can continue using your computer for other tasks while documents print in the background. For an example of the print quality LQ produces, type LQDEMO. LQ is available from Granny's Old-Fashioned Software at $35 for the registered package or $10 for the distribution disk. North Carolina residents please add 5%, foreign orders $3. Foreign: MC, VISA or U.S. funds drawn on U.S. bank, please. Granny's reserves the right to change the above prices in the future. -------------------------------------------------------------------- If your computer shows the wrong time on the alarm clock but the correct time when you type TIME at the DOS prompt then you should try running the utility TIMER (a public domain program by David Macchiarolo and Jim Seley) or FIXCLOCK before running ALARM (preferably in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file). In particular, AT&T 6300 users should run the sequence TIMER ALARM FIXCLOCK If your printer is an Epson LQ 800, LQ 850, LQ 500 or compatible, put the line %T 132,26,115,15,27,83,0,27,51,15 in your CONFIG.CAL file so that 'tiny' printing will set the proper line spacing. From a user with a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet II printer comes the suggestion that the following setup strings be included in CONFIG.CAL: %N 90,5,66,27,69,27,38,107,49,48,72,27,38,108,55,99,50,69 %R 27,69,27,38,108,51,69 %S 90,10,80,27,69,27,38,107,49,48,72,27,38,108,56,100,48,69 %T 132,5,97,27,69,27,38,108,53,99,52,69,27,40,115,48,84,27,38,107,50,83 Another user suggested the following (probably for an older HP): %N 80,0,58,27,69 %S 132,0,58,27,69,27,40,115,49,54,46,54,54,72 %T 132,0,116,27,69,27,38,108,48,79,27,38,108,49,50,68,27,38,107,50,83 For a Okidata Microline 192 try the following setups: ;Italics on: %X 27,33,47 ;Italics off: %Y 27,33,42 ;Normal print: elite, left margin 8, near letter quality %N 96,8,55,28,27,49 ;Small print: 17.1 cpi %S 136,26,55,29 ;Tiny print: 17.1 cpi,115 lines per page, 12 lines per inch %T 136,26,115, 27,37,57,12, 27,74,29 ;reset sequence: %R 27,24 The maximum number of values in a %N, %S or %T sequence has been increased from 14 to 25.