3/Nov/93	ABOUT TIME © Ver 1.0
		
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This is yet another clock/calendar programme. It's main   
feature is that is not necessary to maximise it to tell   
the time: it places the time right on the title bar   
(caption) of your currently active application, as long  
as that application is not iconized, and as long as the 
Window is a parent window.

Unfortunately, the un-registered version of ABOUT TIME has 
a nag screen that frustrates automatic loading of ABOUT 
TIME. You need to respond to the Nag screen before ABOUT 
TIME will function at all, however this is the only 
'crippling' that the un-registered version has endured.

Ideally, you will load ABOUT TIME from the "Load=" line of 
WIN.INI, that way it's use is entirely automatic, and not 
even slightly difficult to operate.  It will then be 
iconized, and well out of the way.

Double click on the date to obtain info about that date, 
and double click on the year to check for Leap Years, and 
others.  The little button to the right of the Calendar 
takes you back to the current month.

ABOUTIME.LZH (or .ZIP) contains six files:-
	
	ABOUTIME.EXE	- Executable
	ABOUTIME.INI	- Initialisation file
	GRID.VBX	- Custom control
	THREED.VBX	- Custom control
	_READ_ME.TXT	- This text file
	_SYS_OP1.TXT	- Note for the BBS SysOp

ABOUT TIME *WILL* *NOT* *RUN* without VBRUN300.DLL. This 
is the runtime file for Visual Basic 3.00, and is 
available separately from the bulletin board from which 
you obtained this Beta copy.  If you have a copy for 
another program, you don't need to download another.
It is not included here in an effort to save your
down-load time.

The registered version of ABOUT TIME will include
VBRUN300.DLL, plus an installation program which
will make most of the following redundant.

Files:

1.  You can put the ABOUTIME.EXE file anywhere, but the  
best place is in your Windows directory. Even if you 
rename ABOUT TIME and put that name in the Load= line 
of your WIN.INI file, ABOUT TIME will 'find itself'.   

If you elect to run ABOUTIME.EXE every time that Windows 
is run, you need only enter "Load=ABOUTIME.EXE" in the 
existing WIN.INI file, assuming you are not loading any 
other programs. 
 
In the example above, the full path (ie. 
"C:\WIN\ABOUTIME.EXE") is not necessary, as your Windows 
directory *SHOULD* be in your PATH statement.  
Alternatively, if you put ABOUTIME.EXE in a directory that 
is not in your PATH statement, your "Load=" line should 
include the full path name ie. 
"Load=C:\ABOUTIME\ABOUTIME.EXE" or 
"Load=calc.exe C:\ABOUTIME\ABOUTIME.EXE" or
"Load=C:\ABOUTIME\ABOUTIME.EXE winword.exe"

    NOTE: The quotation marks should not be in your 
    INI file, and only serve to illustrate the point.

2.  The ABOUTIME.INI file can *ONLY* be in your Windows 
directory.  It doesn't matter if your Windows directory is
"C:\WINDOWS" or "C:\WIN" or "D:\WIN31" or "J:\DOGSBODY", 
ABOUT TIME will find it via the Windows API.  Do not 
manually edit the ABOUTIME.INI file, as ABOUT TIME
may not work.

3. GRID.VBX, and THREED.VBX *MUST* go in your 
Windows\SYSTEM directory. See above re Windows directory.
If you have older versions (check the date in File 
Manager) of these files on your hard disk and do not 
overwrite them with the files supplied in 
ABOUTIME.LZH, then ABOUT TIME will not run. This point 
should be remembered if you have other Visual Basic 
programs that worked before you installed ABOUT TIME and 
have since adopted a negative attitude.

4. The other files are text files that you can read from 
Notepad, which is probably what you are doing right now.

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