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PERSONAL CALENDAR (PC) FOR DOS Version 14.20
FILE HISTORY.DOC 17 Jan 1991
Recent Enhancements and Changes -- Executable Program
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Copyright 1985-1991 by Paul Munoz-Colman. All rights reserved.
┌─────────┐
┌─────┴───┐ │ (R)
──│ │o │──────────────────
│ ┌─────┴╨──┐ │ Association of
│ │ │─┘ Shareware
└───│ o │ Professionals
──────│ ║ │────────────────────
└────╨────┘ MEMBER
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Paul Muñoz─Colman │ Phone: (703) 435─1110 (home) │
│ 11645 Charter Oak Ct., #201 │ 487─8658 (office) │
│ Reston, VA 22090─4526 │ 71141,1224 CompuServe or PCMagNet │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
ENHANCEMENTS & CORRECTIONS
. 14.20. For changing events, an improper "Date Too Large" message has been
corrected.
. 14.19. The Help Text file can now be viewed at any time in a
context-sensitive manner by pressing F5. The clock screen instruction recall
key is accordingly changed to Shift-F5.
. Personal Calendar is now ASP Shareware (Association of Shareware
Professionals. License terms, site license terms and prices have changed.
. For a registered user, the "Popping Down" screen may be optionally
bypassed.
. Separate topic files have been added to the archive for user
convenience: PACKING.LST, HISTORY.DOC, REGISTER.DOC, LICENSE.DOC,
SITELICE.DOC, WARRANTY.DOC, VENDOR.DOC, SYSOP.DOC, and SHARWARE.DOC.
. 14.18. For a registered user, passing Personal Calendar's startup screen
is faster, and may be optionally bypassed altogether.
. 14.17. Personal Calendar's Shareware license fee for a registered copy of
the program is now $35.
. Additional changes to batch file processing in TSR mode were made.
. 14.16. As a task under Windows 3.0, Personal Calendar will now run in
non-TSR mode successfully. Under Windows 3.0 in TSR mode, PC will run with no
conflicts, but does not make effective use of the TSR capability, due to
Windows' intercept of the pop down.
If started prior to running Windows 3.0, PC may be used in either TSR or
non-TSR modes. If chosen, PC will stay in TSR mode, but will not pop up while
Windows 3.0 is active. Normal TSR functions are restored on termination of
Windows.
. 14.15 and 16. Minor anomalies in handling a shell to a batch file in TSR
mode were also corrected. Return from a batch file in TSR mode now requires
that the CALPOPUP command be included at the end of the batch file in all
cases.
. 14.15. Popping up over WordPerfect Office 3.0 SHELL in or out of a LAN
environment will no longer hang the system, due to some more armor added for
the strange interrupt handling that this shell employs.
. Source code is no longer available as Shareware, but only as
licensed material for an additional fee to those who register the program.
. 14.12. On popping up, the delay on testing if DOS is busy has been reduced
from five seconds to one second.
. On popping down, the state of the caps, num, insert and scroll keys
are restored (oops, that goody got deleted from 14.10 without my realizing it,
sorry!)
. A minor error has been corrected in the option to prevent popping
up over video screens which can't be saved.
. There is a new file CALNAMES.DAT which contain PC's procedure names
for any error message. File CALERROR.DAT is 12K smaller in size and overall
disk requirements are 8K smaller.
. PC is now packaged as an authenticated PKZIP archive.
. 14.11. If running under DOS 3.0 or later, PC may now be started from any
directory, by using the full pathname of the program, or by having the program
in the DOS PATH. If running under DOS 2.x, PC must still be started from its
own directory.
. The user program DOS color attribute is now restored properly upon
non-resident shell or program termination.
. 14.10. I've provided several enhancements and corrections because of
MicroHelp's new Stay-Res Plus version 4.00 and other efforts:
. In TSR Mode, the portion of the program which remains in DOS memory
(the TSR kernel) has been reduced by about half from 10,600 bytes to about
6,000 bytes !!
. Also in TSR Mode, the portion of the program which swaps to EMS or
to each of the two disk swap files has been reduced about 20%, from about
280,000 bytes to about 230,000 bytes !!
. On a pop down to an EGA or VGA screen, the screen restore no longer
gives incorrect colors.
. On a pop down, screen saves will now go to EMS memory only if that
mode is also chosen for program swapping (and likewise for disk swapping). If
not enough EMS memory is available for both, screen saves then go to disk. The
disk screen save file is now written to the same path as the program swap
files.
. If popping up over a video mode which is not supported (greater than
19 decimal, therefore non-standard), you have the option to suppress the pop up
to avoid disturbing the screen, or to pop up and thus restore a blank screen on
pop down.
. If the earliest event is in a future year and automatic pop up on
date/time is set, the program now pops up at the correct date/time.
. Printer support has been added for the HP IIP/III/IIID LaserJet and
for the IBM 4019 LaserPrinters. In absence of printer selection, the default
is now to not alter your printer's setup (which was already selectable as an
option). Flushing the print file at completion has also been added to ensure
compatibility with network printers.
. When running a DOS command in TSR mode, the command may now be
interrupted prior to completion by a pop up by hot key or date/time, and will
pick up where it left off on the next pop down.
. If the program hasn't yet popped down, it's no longer necessary to
terminate and restart to switch between EMS and disk swapping modes.
. A "snow" checking option has been added for CGA monitors, which can
be set from the Memory-Resident options menu.
. The name of the disk swap files have been changed to CALSWAP.000
& CALSWAP.001.
. If you have specified a non-existent disk swap drive/path, it is now
automatically be changed to PC's startup path.
. 14.00. Personal Calendar is now Shareware. Source code is now available
for an additional fee. PC is now packaged with PKWare's PKZIP version 1.10.
. Personal Calendar is now compiled with Microsoft Professional BASIC
7.10 and linked with segmented-executable linker 5.10, making the program yet
somewhat smaller and faster.
. Special modifications were made in conjunction with JP Software to
ensure greater compatibility with 4DOS release 3.01a.
. An error has been corrected which used EMS memory for swapping if
it was available even if requested not to.
. 12.75. On the pop down screen, the number of the user's program video page
being restored is now shown along with the BIOS mode. Additional video page
pop up adjustments were made.
. 12.74. Adjustments were made to allow pop ups over video pages other than
zero in text mode.
. If the programs starts in a mode or on a page other than text mode
and page zero, it is returned to that page and mode upon termination.
. If the program pops up over a user program which is in 43-line (EGA)
or 50-line (VGA) mode, screen save and restore now occurs correctly.
. I finally found and excised the residual cursor that appears from
time to time when the program pops up!
. 12.73. If the program