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   Kerr-Mudd,John to notsaying@nospicedham.127.0.0.1   
   Re: Calendar program   
   20 Nov 20 13:56:42   
   
   From: notsaying@nospicedham.127.0.0.1   
      
   On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 13:30:25 GMT, "Kerr-Mudd,John"   
    wrote:   
      
   []   
      
   > I've discovered a 620 byte "interactive" calendar:   
   >   
   > 'Copyright (C) Lawrence E. Boothby 1998'   
   >   
   to be clear; all I've retained is the key decoding and output   
   position & colours.   
      
   > which comes wrapped in a compression method of his own   
   > devising   
   >   
   > It starts at the current calendar month, and permits   
   > CsrL -1 month   
   > CsrR +1 month   
   > CsrU -1 year   
   > CsrD +1 year   
   > PgUp -100 years   
   > PgDn +100 years   
   > (escape)   
   Home to go back to current month   
      
   > drawn at the top right of a standard colour text screen in   
   > blue on green.   
   >   
   > I've reverse-engineered it and inserted my own leap year   
   code   
   > to get a 398 byte (no compression, no copyright) program.   
   > Still room for cutting some, I think.   
   >   
   382; using bios to clear the window, rather than putting a lot   
   of spaces over the previous calendar.   
      
   > So there's potential to add e.g. startday adjust code inside   
   > the 512 limit.   
   >   
      
      
      
      
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