Personal Appointment  Calendar v3.1

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Larry Mears 11027 Crestfield Dr. Huntsville, AL 35803

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                         PACking a tight schedule!

      Personal Appointment Calendar ( a.k.a. PAC ), is a project I took on

  as a request from my wife.  It's hard to remember mailing Aunt Fanny that

  birthday card when you have all those other parental duties such as the

  after school discussion with the teacher.   PAC will let you create a set

  of calendars that contain dates that never change such as birthdays, you

  just load them and add your months schedule to it and print it out.  What

  you end up with is a full printed page of a regular looking calendar with

  your appointments and special reminders in the blocks for that particular day.

  PAC allows  11 lines of 19 characters in each day's block and will print

  out a calendar for a given month from 1989 thru 2015.  You could use PAC

  to produce a calendar of events for a computer fest.  PAC will run  without a

  printer but the printouts are the main purpose of PAC,  a Epson compatible

  printer capable of 20 CPI (160 columns) is highly recommended.

  
       Upon running PAC from the desktop you will see a calendar for the
       
  month of the current system date, and year if it is in the range of

  1989 thru 2015 otherwise the year will default to 1989.  To change the 
  
  year or month use the menu header CALENDAR.  When you change the year
  
  or the month with this menu selection the memory that holds the text for
  
  the calendar is zeroed,  so it is important to save a calendar using the
  
  SAVE function under the menu header FILES before you change the month or
  
  year if you have made changes.  Under the menu header OPTIONS you will
  
  find the selections "Strike" and "Auto Date Set".   Strike  simply puts

  the printer in double strike mode,  takes twice as long to print out a

  calendar.  The Auto Date Set function is set to on as default at runtime.

  PAC generates  filenames from the date you have selected when you SAVE or

  LOAD calendars.  Auto Date Set will try to set the date to match the
 
  filename.  For example SEP_1989.PAC will be interpreted as September 1989.

  
       To generate calendars to remind you of birthdays and anniversaries 

  click on a day displayed on the screen.  A window will pop open with the day

  and date as the title.  You can now type in whatever you like for that day.
  
  The editor works in replace mode only.  Use the arrows, backspace, delete,

  insert, home, and end keys to edit your text.  You can only edit one day at

  a time.  To  exit out of the edit mode click the right mouse button.
  
  When finished editing your reminder calendar SAVE it and alter
  
  the filename with the file selector leaving the month abbreviation
  
  and the extender PAC intact, example JAN_BDAY.PAC .  Next year just set the
  
  YEAR before you LOAD  JAN_BDAY.PAC,  have Auto Set Date on and it will
  
  load in your reminders, set the month to January and leave the year as
  
  you selected because it couldn't find a valid year in the file name.   All
  
  that is left is to add your appointments and you have a reminder for the
  
  month to keep you punctual and thoughtful.  When printing out a calendar
  
  position the printhead at the very top of the page since the calendar
  
  requires a whole sheet.
   
  
                            About The Program

       PAC is was originally written In HiSoft Basic on the Atari ST.

  I used GFA Basic to bring PAC to MSDOS because it is a great language.

  PAC will only run on a VGA system 640x480 with a MOUSE and a EPSON

  compatible printer that can do 20 CPI (160 columns).


                                  About me

       I am a old time Atari user from way back, since October of '81.  I still

  own two 8 bit systems and a Atari ST.  I program with Basic, Pascal, C.

  In '89 I began  using a MSDOS clone because of it's popularity.  I still

  believe Atari's Motorola based computers are much better than the Intel

  based clones and a lot less expensive than Apples, but the masses never

  have to diddle with segmented memory.

  I am a Shipping Clerk for a local bakery here at Huntsville, Alabama ;

  "Rocket City", home of Marshall Space Flight Center and

  The Space and Rocket Center.   The Space Center is where you may be if you

  ever go to Space Camp.  I program because I found computers exciting back in

  '81.  It's to bad I wasn't born ten years later, it would have made a big

  difference in my life.

       I also wrote BLUE INSTANT GRAPHICS! (BIG) terminal with Borland C.

  BIG is available for download off GEnie, Look for BIG102.ZIP, BPAINT05.ZIP,

  and BF102.ZIP.  BIG can do real graphics online far surpassing  ANSI,

  640x480 graphics and sound right out of a message base!