                             
                              ANNIVERS v1.02 
                             
 
                   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 "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 for 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.
 
