$Id: README.DOS,v 1.1 1996-03-27 03:25:49 dfs Exp $ REMIND version 3.0 for MS-DOS REMIND is a sophisticated alarm/calendar program. Details are given in the man page, "remind.1". 1 - Read the file COPYRIGHT. (This may be called COPYRIGH on your MS-DOS system.) 2 - Examine the file config.h and adjust parameters as needed 3 - If you are using Turbo C to compile Remind, type: make -fmakefile.tc If you are using Microsoft C to compile Remind, type: make makefile.msc This will create REMIND.EXE, which is ready to be executed. The file "defs.rem" has some sample Remind definitions and commands, as well as U.S. and Jewish holidays. OTHER LANGUAGE SUPPORT Remind has support for languages other than English. See the file "lang.h" for details. The language support may vary - you can change only the substitution filter, or you can translate all of the usage instructions and error messages as well. See "french.h" for an example. If you add support for a non-English language, Remind will accept both the English and non-English names of months and weekdays in an input script. However, you should not rely on this feature if you want to write portable Remind scripts. At a minimum, you should support month and day names in the foreign language, and should modify the substitution filter appropriately. If you are truly diligent, you can translate usage and error messages too. Take a look at the files "english.h" and "german.h" if you want to add support for your favourite language. If you do add another language to Remind, please let me know! Here are the basic guidelines: - Your language file should be called "lxxx.h", where lxxx is the first 8 characters of the ENGLISH name of your language. - You should define L_LANGNAME to be the full English name of your language, with the first letter capitalized and the rest lower-case. -- David F. Skoll 986 Eiffel Avenue Ottawa, Ontario K2C 0J2 CANADA Tel. (613) 225-8687