REMINDER V1.0 November 17,1991
                  By Manfred Sierke, Ottawa, Canada

     REMINDER
          Reminder is a program to ensure that you don't miss
     upcoming birthdays, anniversaries, or any other type of special
     events which could slip your mind.  Just place Reminder in
     the Auto Folder of your boot disk and whenever you bootup the
     computer it'll display any special event scheluded for that
     date.  The program contains an event for each day of the year
     plus about 50 holidays(Christmas,thanksgiving,etc) which will
     be automatically displayed for you plus any events which have
     been flagged for advance warning.  After displaying these
     the program will wait 5 seconds before continuing.  If you need
     a little longer just press the 'help' key and the program will
     pause until you press another key.

     REM_EDIT
          To be useful you'll need to personalize the data in Reminder
     to show the dates that are of significance to you.  That's where
     Rem_edit comes in.  First thing to do is select the load data
     button and you'll be asked to locate Reminder using a file selector.
     Once the data is loaded the event for each date will be displayed
     in the data box.  To change the date move the curser to the date
     line and type in the new date (mm/dd). When you move the curser
     back down to the data lines you'll see what's on for the date
     displayed.  Backspace,delete,curser keys,insert,etc all work
     as you would expect them to.  Escape clears the line.  Control-c
     centers the text on the line for you.
          Items can be flagged for advance warning by putting an
     exclamation mark at the beginning of the line and optionally
     followed by a value of 1-30. (7 is the default if no value is
     given)
     eg: "!     John's Birthday Today   " would be displayed 7 days
     in advance.
         "!12  Fred's Birthday     " would be displayed 12 days in
     advance.
     Only the line flagged would be shown so if you want both lines
     displayed you'd have to flag them both.  The !(and value) will
     not appear in the actual display itself.  Remember that ! must
     be the first character so center the line first before putting
     in the !.

     ST ALMANAC
          As mentioned the program contains about 50 holidays such
     as Christmas, Thanksgiving etc.  This too can be personalized
     if you use a program I wrote earlier called St Almanac 
     (a calendar/almanac program). You can have Reminder
     read the 'dates.cal' file created by St Almanac for it's list
     of holidays and special events to display after the date. The
     easiest way to do this is to put a copy of the 'dates.cal' in
     the root directory of your boot disk. Then when Reminder runs
     it'll use the holidays in 'dates.cal' instead of it's own 
     list of holidays.  If you have a hard drive an even better way
     to do this is to use a disk/file editor and change Reminder
     to locate the 'dates.cal' file.  You'll find the path of the
     file it searches for at $30.  Just change this to the correct
     path for your purposes.
     eg:  as is at $30:  DATES.CAL followed by nulls -  change to
     E:\ALMANAC\DATES.CAL [null-00] or whatever and you're all set.
 
    THAT'S ALL
          Obviously to work properly Reminder should be in the auto
     folder after a program which sets the date/time.  If you use
     one of those programs that compresses files Reminder will work just
     fine but remember that you'll have to decompress it in order to
     use Rem_edit.

     CREDITS
          If you find this program useful feel free to use it or pass
     on to others.  If you're feeling kind and generous a small
     contribution would of course be appreciated (say about $5).
     I can be reached at the following address:
                      
                              Manfred Sierke
                              84 Barrette St.
                              Vanier, Ontario
                              Canada
                              K1L8A3