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- Epoch CLI V1.0
- (C) C.S.J.Brady 1994
-
- This program may be freely distributed, no fee is required either from
- people distributing the program or from people using the program. People
- distributing the program may not make more than a reasonable charge for
- distributing the program to cover disks and postage. The distribution by
- 0898 BBSs or any BBS claiming copyright to file on the system is
- particularly forbidden.
-
- J. Pritchard has been specifically granted the right to distribute this
- program and document with his own program Epoch Master.
-
- NO ONE may tamper with this software in any way; this includes, but is
- not limited to, reverse engineering, recompiling, editing the executable
- or document files.
-
- Epoch CLI was written in C using DICE on a very old Amiga 500 with WB1.3,
- and although Epoch CLI is FREEWARE I would like to upgrade my machine :-)
-
- This program uses the file S:EpochCal which is produced by a program
- called Epoch Master which is (C) J. Pritchard 1994. Epoch Master is
- SHAREWARE; shareware contributions of £10 should be sent to J.Pritchard
- at HIS address below.
-
- Epoch CLI was written by me as an alternative to EpochGlance written by
- J. Pritchard. EpochGlance requires that the user uses the mouse while
- scanning the directory outside the main Epoch Master program, and prints
- its output to a separate window.
-
- NB: The first argument must be the calendar file that you wish to read.
-
- The output from Epoch CLI can be made to go straight to the CLI window
- from which it was run from. Output from the program can therefore be
- directed to a file in the normal CLI/Shell way i.e. "program >PATH:file"
- sends the output to a new file (a file will be created automatically, a
- file with the same name, if present, is DELETED). The command "program
- >>PATH:file" will send the output to a new file, if a file called "file"
- doesn't exist, or it will append the output to the file if the file
- already exists.
-
- If you wish to use redirection when using Epoch CLI please use the -p
- option as this will stop the program waiting for the user to press return
- after each entry and also sends the output to the CLI/SHELL window (which
- is needed when using redirection). To do this type :-
-
- epoch_cliV1.0 >>ram:diary.txt s:epochcal -p
-
- Replace s:epochcal with the filename that you use.
-
- To use this program in your startup-sequence I recommend that you use the
- following lines in the startup-sequence of your system (boot) disk:-
-
- ask "*e[33mCheck Diary ?*e[0m {y/n}"
- if WARN
- epoch_cliV1.0 s:epochcal
- echo "Checked Diary"
- else
- echo "Did not check diary"
- endif
-
- Please ensure that you have the commands "ask", "if", "else", "endif",
- "echo" and "epoch_cliV1.0" available on the current (search) path,
- for example in the C: directory of the system (boot) disk.
-
- Epoch_CLI uses the system date and so you need to have set your system
- clock before you run the program, using "setclock load". If you don't
- have a system clock use the "-i" option when running the program, as this
- stops the program loading and using the system date. There is no need to
- use this option with the "-p" option as the system date is not currently
- used when using the "-p" option. There is no need to use the -c option
- if you use the -i option (see later).
-
- The -c option stops the program from searching for the next entry that
- will occur (which is the default). If you don't use this option you may
- find that the program starts displaying on, for example, the 6th entry,
- this is not a bug !
-
- If you use the option "-s" when running Epoch_CLI then you will only be
- given a brief summary of each entry in your S:epochcal file. This option
- can be used in conjunction with the "-p" option to create a table of
- entries.
-
- At the moment this program can NOT read encrypted calendar files, this
- will hopefully change soon; if a file is saved with a password but is not
- encrypted this program reads the file anyway !
-
- You will be told if there are any notes relating to the entry but they
- will not be displayed.
-
- If you have any questions, comments or queries relating to Epoch_CLIV1.0
- then please write to me (Chris Brady) at my address below.
-
- If you have any questions, comments, or queries relating to Epoch Master
- then please write to J. Pritchard at his address.
-
- Chris Brady, J. Pritchard,
- (epoch_cliV1.0) (Epoch Master)
- 5 Hill Grove, 5 Parklands Close,
- Salendine Nook, Gosport,
- Huddersfield. Hampshire.
- West Yorkshire.
- England. England.
- HD3 3TL. PO12 4XJ
-
-
- Please support the AMIGA by sending the SHAREWARE fee to J.Pritchard, and
- send me a postcard of your home town if you can.
-
- Chris Brady
-