This file is the documentation to Reminder 1.0.

OVERVIEW
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In an attempt to remember people's birthdays and such I wrote this
program in a spare 10 minutes.  It is designed to be run in the DOS
autoexec.bat file to display reminder messages.  These messages are set
out in the REMIND.INI file.  A sample REMIND.INI is included.

I am planning a unix port that will work by going in the .cshrc file 
to display reminders whenever you log on.


INSTALLATION
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Unzip the file.  It is recommended that the REMIND.EXE goes in your DOS
directory (or other seacrch path) and the REMIND.INI goes in the root
directory on the boot up drive.  REMIND.INI is the file that contains all
the dates and messages.

USE
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To use Reminder, simply add the line:

remind

to the end of your autoexec.bat file.  You must of course edit the file
REMIND.INI with a text editor.  Here is an example line from the file:

5,2,1997,My 20th Birthday

The date is in the UK order, ie day,month,year.  The message can be up to
80 characters long.  An * can be used as a wildcard.  So:

5,2,*,My Birthday

will print out the message "My Birthday" on the 5th of February of any year.
Similarly:

1,*,*,Post rent cheque

will display the message on the 1st of each month.

To keep this program simple, only messages of up to 80 characters will work.
The REMIND.INI format has to be quite strict too.  No spaces next to the
commas, and only a single blank line can be used to separate groups of
messages.  I have no idea what will happen if these guidelines are not
followed, there is no fancy error checking here, this is something I just
knocked up in a spare 10 minutes I had!

DISCLAIMER
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I cannot guarantee that no bad things will happen through the use of this
program.

THE AUTHOR
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That's me, Rob Fisher.
I can be mailed at:
u9500020@bmth.ac.uk

If you like this program, or would like the source code, mail me.  I'd love
top hear from people who use this (if there are any!)

Also, have a look at my homepage on the WWW for info about other programs:

http://www.ithilien.demon.co.uk/

Have fun,

Rob.