How to organize your appointments in Multi Time Viewer ====================================================== (c) 1999 Anton Belenki http://timexfun.webprovider.com/ It is very convenient to use Multi Time Viewer for storing your appointments (instead of SCLVIEW). Before, make sure that you have the following files in SYSTEM/APPS/ directory: CHECK.EXF and DSD.EXF, and SCH.INI file in SYSTEM/INI/ directory (if you don't have SCH.INI file, create a blank file of 0 bytes in any text editor and save it as SCH.INI). So let's start to build your appointment list. Create a blank file in any text editor. The body of that file should be the following: #TITLE_OF_LIST %alarmA,aleadB;TITLE_OF_APPOINTMENT;C,D,E,F,G where: TITLE_OF_LIST - the title of your appointment list (for example: apps); A - after 'alarm' option comes the name of desired .SND file in SYSTEM/SOUND/ directory (for example: SCHALARM; you don't need to write .SND extension - keep the name of a file only); B - after 'alead' option comes the amount of minutes before which a signal will sound (for example: 2; this means that if the time of appointment is set to 14:55, a signal will sound at 14:53); TITLE_OF_APPOINTMENT - the title of an appointment (for example: meeting); C - the number of year (for example: 1999; put 0 if you want an appointment to be on the current year); D - the number of month (for example: 12; put 0 if you want an appointment to be on the current month); E - the number of date (for example: 25; put 0 if you want an appointment to be on the current day); F - the number of hours (for example: 14); G - the number of minutes (for example: 55; use only one zero if the amount of minutes is 00). So the body will look like this: #apps %alarmSCHALARM,alead2;meeting;1999,12,25,14,55 Or if you don't want to set an appointment to exact date (you want it to be on the current day): #apps %alarmSCHALARM,alead2;meeting;0,0,0,14,55 Or if you want an appointment to sound at exact time (without 'alead' option): #apps %alarmSCHALARM;meeting;0,0,0,14,55 You can add as many appointments as you want. For example: #apps %alarmSCHALARM,alead2;meeting;0,0,0,14,55 %alarmALARM1;pay taxes;2000,6,18,10,30 Then, save the file as FILENAME.MTV, where FILENAME is any name, and put this file to the directory where Multi Time Viewer is situated. Then, after loading MTVIEW.EXF, choose 'Rebuild File List' option to let your appointment list appear in 'Select File' menu. After loading your list, you will see how many years, months, days, hours, minutes or seconds are left until selected appointment. And when that time came, it will sound.