Released: 1999-03-18 (Gregorian)
"With Psych0Day, your days are numbered!"
Psych0Day is a combination of programs dealing with time. It can report what happened in history, whose birthday it is, astronomical events, religious happenings and the phase of the moon as well as display the date in a variety of calender systems. Psych0Day came from from inspiration of several programs and an article by Robert Anton Wilson (included in this archive).
TODAY has many incarnations. The original was written by Mike Butler in PL/1 on an IBM VM/CMS system. This, in turn, inspired Patrick Kincaid to write TODAY/PC in Datalight C in July of 1986. OS2DAY, authored by Oleg Titov, is the OS/2 incarnation that I had been using until I wrote Psych0Day.
Psych0Day is hereby released to the public domain. Portions, however, were not written by me and belong to their respect authors. I believe what's what is cleary marked.
If you make any neat improvements or modifications, send them to me. At least drop me a note: I'd like to see how this thing gets around.
Psych0Day is provided `as is.' There is no warranty of any kind-- expresed, implied or otherwise. If it breaks, you keep both pieces.
Furthermore, the accuracy of this program is not guaranteed.
These can also be listed by running PDAY ?. The command line is case insensitive.
Usage: PDAY [{-|+}c[x]] [-Fdd[mm[yyyy]]] [-i] [{-|+}l[x]]
[-dir=drive:\\dir\\]
or PDAY
c: toggle display of calendars (all on by default)
cd: toggle Discordian
cf: toggle French Republican
cg: toggle Gregorian
ci: toggle Illuminati
cj: toggle Julian
cl: toggle Goddess Lunar
ct: toggle Thelemic (disabled)
f: force date in the format dd[mm[yyyy]]
i: display program information
l: toggle library support (all on by default)
lb: toggle birthdays
le: toggle events
lr: toggle reminders
lib: specify library directory
ex1: PDAY
Run with all defaults and search current directory for library files.
ex2: PDAY -f09101981
The date October 9th, E.V. 1981 is used.
ex3: PDAY -f0910
The date October 9th of the current year is used.
ex4: PDAY -libdir=c:\apps\pday\
The directory `c:\apps\pday\' is searched for the
library files. Notice that the trailing backslash is required!
ex5: PDAY -cj -cf
The Julian and French Republican calendars are disabled.
ex6: PDAY -c +cd
The calendar displayed is the Discordian. (This neat little trick is
possible because the command line is parsed from left to right.)
ex7: PDAY -l
Same as ex1 except all no database libraries are displayed.
ex8: PDAY -le -lb
Same as ex1 except library events and birthdays are disabled.
If any of these are missing or damaged, see the end of this document for information on how to get a fresh copy of Psych0Day.
PDAY .EXE DOS 16-bit executable
PDAY2 .EXE OS/2 32-bit executable (requires EMXRT)
PDAY386 .EXE DOS 32-bit executlabe (requires DPMI server)
PDAY95 .EXE Windows 95 32-bit executable (requires RSXNT.DLL)
PDAY_DOC.HTM HTML documentation
PDAY_DOC.TXT text documentation
README .xxx important notes for version xxx, changes, etc.
RAWTIME .TXT R.A.W.'s "How to Live Eleven Days in 24 Hours"
CHURCH .ALL religious happenings
MUSIC .ALL happenings related to music
PSYCH0 .ALL my own general additions
TODAY .ZIP Patrick Kincaid's original TODAY.??? files
SRC .ZIP source code; only needed pieces of the packages used
have been included as not to waste space
** contains nested subdirectories: use _PKUNZIP -D_
FILE_ID .DIZ BBS-compatible description
Psych0Day's output can be redirected (piped) to a file or a device. Below are several examples of how this done. You may wish to see your system manuals for more information.
Note: error messages are not piped but instead always sent to the console.
PDAY > COM1
Sends the output to the first communications port.
PDAY > PRN
Data is sent to the default printer.
PDAY > NUL
This is useless considering Psych0Day's function, but the data is sent
to the null device (i.e., oblivion).
PDAY > c:\bbs\texts\today.asc
The file c:\bbs\texts\today.asc is overwritten, if it exists. If it
doesn't, it is created.
PDAY >> c:\bbs\logs\today.log
The file c:\bbs\logs\today.log is appended with Psych0Day's output.
If it doesn't, it is created.
PDAY | MORE
Output is sent to the program MORE, which included with many
operating systems. MORE pauses and waits for your input when the
page is full.
The PAT386.EXE requires DPMI (DOS Protected Mode Interface) to access extended memory. You must either install a DPMI host or use another version.
Available hosts include Windows v3.1, '95 and '98 (in a box running DOS); OS/2 (in the DOS box a.k.a. VDM); QEMM; and CWSDPMI. CWSDPMI is available for free and works very well.
CWSDPMI from ftp.cdrom.com via FTP
CWSDPMI from members.xoom.com via HTTP
In the DOS Settings, set your DPMI_DOS_API to ENABLED (instead of AUTO) and increase the DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT to atleast 16 megabytes.
PAT2.EXE requires the EMX runtime library to access certain functions. You must install the emxrt or use another version.
emxrt from hobbes.nmsu.edu via HTTP
emxrt from members.xoom.com via HTTP
PAT95.EXE requires the RSX runtime library (RSXNT.DLL).
rsxnt.dll from members.xoom.com via HTTP
Title: Calendar Information Page
Author: Will Linden (wlinden@panix.com)
URL: http://www.panix.com/~wlinden/calendar.shtml
Today's date in various calendars and eras, celestial and astronomical information, and many good links.
Title: Calendar Studies
Author: Peter Meyer (serendipity@magnet.ch)
URL: http://www.magnet.ch/serendipity/cal_stud.html
Information covering the Mayan, Goddess Lunar, Gregorian, Julian and other lunar calendars.
Title: Celestial Delight: The Best Astronomical Events through 2001
Authors: Francis Reddy and Greg Walz-Chojnacki
Publisher: (?) Berkeley California: CelestialArts
Great for novice astronomers. Has history, planet data, and a table of events (visable planets, full moons, asteriod showers, etc.) from about 1990 to 2001 (like the name implies).
Title: Frequently Asked Questions About Calendars
Author: Claus Tondering (c-t@pip.dknet.dk)
Included as: CALENDAR.FAQ
WWW: www.pip.dknet.dk/~pip10160/calendar.html
Contains answers to frequently asked questions about the Christian, Hebrew, Islamic, and various historical calendars.
Title: How to Live Eleven Days in 24 Hours
Author: Robert Anton Wilson
Included as: RAWTIME.TXT
This is the article inspired me to write Psych0Day. Robert Anton Wilson writes of using a "no-bias multi-cultural" calendar. Explained herein are 11 systems.I'd like to know where this was originally published.
Title: Illuminatus! Trilogy
Authors: Bob Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
Publisher: Dell Publishing
URL: http://www.rawilsom.com (R.A. Wilson's web page)
I've finally found one of the books, the third, at a used book store, but I haven't started reading because I want it in order. I haven't bought the trilogy as one book because it is much abridged.
Title: Principia Discordia
Author: Malaclypse the Younger
Publisher: Loompanics Unlimited, Port Townsend, Washington
Publisher: (or) IllumiNet Press, P.O. Box 2808, Libum, Georgia 30226
ISBN: 0-9626534-2-X (4th/5th edition)
WWW: www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~bach/gwd/principia/body.html
The Discordian Bible wherein is explained absolutely everything worth knowing about absolutely anything.
There are many versions floating around. The one I've seen in print is a combination of the 4th and 5th editions; the one I have in ASCII is the 5th edition; I don't know about the scanned (.GIF) and HTML versions.
Title: SNIPPETS
F'REQ: SNIPPETS from 1:106/2000 or 1:2320/38
FTP: snippets.org/pub/snippets
WWW: www.snippets.org
SNIPPETS is a huge collection of C source snippets where I have found many a useful thing. I've included the pieces used in this program.
Title: Thelemic Calendar and Holidays
WWW: http://www5.crl.com/~thelema/calendar.html
Maintained by: Vere Chappell (thelema@crl.com)
Title: Yahoo! - Reference:Calendars
URL: http://www.yahoo.com/Reference/Calendars/
A good starting point for research on the WWW.
Title: Psych0's Bookmark
URL: http://www.angelfire.com/co/psych0o/links.html#astrology
Andrew Ziem is Psych0 and Psych0Soft.
E-mail
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ziem@iex.net
Snail
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Colorado Springs, CO 80918-4635
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Look for the latest updates directly from the Psych0Day website.
File Naming Conventions
Where xxx signifies the version release:
all: PDAYxxx.ZIP (DOS, OS/2 and Windows)
DOS: PDAYxxxD.ZIP (16-bit and 32-bit)
OS2: PDAYxxxO.ZIP
W95: PDAYxxxW.ZIP
WWW
http://www.members.xoom.com/sdexter/psoft/
http://www.members.xoom.com/sdexter/psoft/pday.html
Sites
Simtel archive
Hobbes archive
Public domain code from
Portions copyright 1993-1995, Scott E. Lee, all rights reserved.
| DJGPP | DJ Delorie |
| EMX | Eberhart Mattes |
| MS-DOS | Microsoft Corp. |
| OS2DAY | Oleg Titov |
| OS/2 | International Business Machines Corp. |
| TODAY | Michael W. Butler |
| TODAY/PC | Patrick Kincaid |
| Windows 95 | Microsoft Corp. |
All other programs are copyright and/or trademarked by their respective author unless otherwise noted.