14 Event scheduling system

The CFS Event scheduling system is controlled via commands and offers the following facilities:

1) Formatted display of a monthly calendar within the period of January 1500 to December 2300. Events are marked.

2) Specification of events with date, time, short description, and full description. You may define up to 250 periodic events. Periodicity may be defined as yearly, monthly or weekly.

3) Updating of texts for existing events.

4) Display of all information for an event.

5) Display of a list of events for a specified date or beginning with a specified date. The list contains the date, time, 'executed'-mark, and short description .

6) Short Display of information in the system line about the days for which events are scheduled.

In the following we speak of an event as an "item". We say, an event (item) is executed, if it was marked as ok by the user.

The functions 1) to 6) correspond to the following commands:

CAL Show Calendar (by month)

II Insert Item (enter event)

MI Modify Item (update event text)

SI Show Item (display all information of an event)

SIL Show Item List (Event list)

SIS Short information about days with events scheduled.

IFILE  Definition of a non standard event file.