Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Daniel Lacasse
January 24th 1999
Your attention please!
Reading all this documentation file will take exactly 4 minutes of your precious time!
Purpose
If like me, every day you turn on your computer, then maybe this little utility program can be for you.
Introduction
I have always enjoyed making new acquaintances. Some of these acquaintances have become good friends, others just
remained acquaintances (occasional friends), and finally some of them just simply disappeared.
I have always liked to surprise those occasional friends with their anniversary. Especially with female
acquaintances ;-) either by sending them a card through the mail or by giving them a phone call.
You can imagine that there were quite a few to remember and that sometimes I would forget their birthday or at least
I'd remember it too late.
This is the reason that I thought about creating this little program that in case of an emergency will serve as a
reminder to me of any special anniversary, events.
How it works
The program will read through the text file "ANNIVERS.DAT" and will look for lines beginning with the "=" caracter
and then will read the date under MM/DD format written by the user. If the date read match the current date hold by
the computer then the sentence wrote on the same line will show and you will hear a beep.
Suggestion
In order to not forget a birthday or any special events, you can simply write a memo a few days before it's actual
date.
How to use the program
How to edit the file "C:\ANNIVERS.DAT" is explain in the file itself.
Use the EDIT command at DOS to read and modify this file.
N.B.
You must add to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file this command line:
ANNIVERS -option
Valid options are:
-F for french mode (english default)
-S pour silent mode
-FS or -SF are also accepted
Anything else abort program.
History
v1.01 : 99/01/24 : First public release.
v1.02 : 95/12/17 : This relase.
- Fixed a bug where the message on the last line can sometimes show twice if date match.
- Fixed the beep delay, was playing differently depending on the computer speed.
- Added this HTML doc file.
Author
There is two ways where you can reach me.
The first one is to write at this address:
Daniel Lacasse
5408 de la Romance
Charny, QC
G6X 3A7
CANADA
The second way is Internet using this address: ve2dlx@videotron.ca
Distribution
This program is public domain "freeware" and is to be freely distributed.
5$
If my program allowed you a second time (the first was free!) to point out an anniversary or an event you had
completely forgotten, it would be really appreciated that you send a little 5$ to the address up there in order
to reward me for the service.
Not expensive if you think of all upcoming events you could miss!
Thanks
Thanks to all who took the time to read this whole text because otherwise I would have wasted my time writing it.