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                            Windows Reminder                             
                                                                         
    

What is REMINDER?

    Did You ever forget your best friend's birthday? Hopefully this will
    not happen again with REMINDER.

    REMINDER reads a text file with your important dates and displays
    everything that lies within a user selectable range in a window.
    By default REMINDER will show your dates for the next 10 days.
    The power of this program is its simplicity.

    REMINDER is distributed as CardWare. If You like it, send a nice
    picture postcard.

Installation

    Copy REMINDER.EXE to your Windows directory and install it with program
    manager. You will also need the VBRUN100.DLL runtime library somewhere
    on your DOS path.  You will find this library on every Win*Net BBS.
    Copy the REMINDER.DAT to the same directory where REMINDER.EXE is located.

    I would strongly advise you to put REMINDER.EXE into your RUN= statement.

Operation

    REMINDER has five buttons:

    'Thank you' terminates the program. This is the default.
    'Change' calls the editor (default: notepad) with your REMINDER.DAT file.
    'Rescan' re-reads REMINDER.DAT.
    'Options' call the REMINDER's option panel.
    'Info' displays information about REMINDER.

    Please note, that REMINDER.DAT has to be in the current directory, when
    REMINDER is started. If it cannot find the file, it will display an error
    message and terminate. Notepad has to be in your path if you want to use
    it from within REMINDER.

Format of REMINDER.DAT

    Each date you would like to remember has to be on a separate line.
    The format of this line is year month day text. Leadings spaces are
    ignored. Example:

    91   12 18 Call George to confirm contract
    1991 12 20 Check savings account

    A zero is a wildcard. These will trigger reminders every year or month.

    0  12  6  Guess what !
    0   5 10  Volker Weber's birthday. Don't forget to send a card.
    0   0 25  Pay next month's rent.

    Do not insert empty lines or commas within REMINDER.DAT

Options

    This is new to version 1.2. You can set up a range of days and
    select your favorite (windows) editor. You might as well leave
    everything at the default. If you have trouble finding the data
    file with the Change button, you can specify the path to your
    reminder.dat.

    The option panel has four input fields:

    - from day:  defaults to -1 (i.e. yesterday)
    - to day:    defaults to 10
    - editor:    defaults to notepad.exe
    - reminders: defaults to reminders.dat

    REMINDER does not perform any error checking. It simply is a 'Garbage
    in - garbage out' setup. If you specify 'from tomorrow 'til yesterday'
    that's exactly what you will get: nothing.

    If REMINDER cannot find the editor you specified, it will display an
    error message and terminate.

    Clicking on the reminders input field displays a files select panel,
    which is pretty much straightforward.

    The options panel has four buttons:

    - Cancel:     close options panel
    - Default:    set everything back to default
    - Temporary:  close options panel and rescan REMINDER.DAT with the
                  new settings
    - Permanent:  same as 'Temporary'. Write Settings to WIN.INI. REMINDER
                  will read the settings from WIN.INI next time.

    WIN.INI will contain five new lines after you selected 'permanent' for
    the first time. They could look like this

        [Reminder]
        EditorName=notepad.exe
        FromDate=-1
        ToDate=10
        Reminders=d:\reminder\reminder.dat

    If you painted yourself into a corner with the options panel, press
    'Default' and 'Permanent'. If all else fails, remove the lines in the
    [Reminder] section of WIN.INI.


De-Installation instructions

    I don't think you will ever need it. But, just in case:

      delete REMINDER.EXE
      delete REMINDER.DOC
      deLete REMINDER.DAT
      remove the five lines from WIN.INI


License

    You may copy or distribute REMINDER as long as you do not charge
    anything for it - I strongly encourage you to do so.

    There is one thing I wolud like you to do.  If you like this program
    and continue to use it, please send a postcard to my adress:

                          Volker Weber
                          Kahlertstr. 32
                          6100 Darmstadt
                          Germany

    If you like to donate any money, please feel free to do that as well.
    By sending me your postcard you will implicitly acquire a lifetime
    license to use this program.  This seems a reasonable price to me.  I
    am very much looking forward to receiving cards from all over the
    world.  Thank you.


Waranty

    This program takes up valuable space on your precious harddisk, although
    not very much.  That's all.  No other waranties implied or expressed.


Revision History

   1.5  Fixed a minor bug in the file section routine and the behaviour
        of the timer.

   1.4  Reminder now rereads its datafile when the date changes. If it
        finds any reminders for the day, it returns its display from
        iconized to normal view and sounds the speaker.

        Reminder now auto-iconizes after one minute if did not find any
        reminders for the day.

        Changed the main display to list box which enables 100
        reminders per day.

        Reminder now sorts the display.

        Added day of week to display. Added todays date to display.

   1.3  Added option to specify the path to your datafile.

   1.2  Added option panel.
        Set up your favourite editor.
        Set up date interval.

   1.1  Minor Bugfix

   1.0  Initial Release


Have fun with this little program

    Volker Weber                                 Darmstadt, November 1991

    Moderator WINDOWS.GER
    2:243/4.1@FIDONET.ORG
