Desktop Calendar
There is a new utility on the system called via the command DTC
(for Desk Top Calendar). It works on VT100 terminals and will
allow you to maintain your calendar in a much more visually
obvious way than the old TOD and CAL commands do (though these
remain useful).
	To use it, you need an empty file in your account called
DTC.DAT. The simplest way to create it is to use the command

PIP DTC.DAT=NL:

Then DTC will work for you.
	When you enter DTC, you normally use commands D, W, or
M for display of Day, Week, or Month. You give the value of the
date as mmddyy (e.g. as 060283 for 6/2/83). (That's the only
really un-obvious thing about DTC). There's a built-in
help command to tell more. Basically you can enter one
liner schedule items for any half hour during the 8AM to 5PM
interval and have the program flag them. 
	The month display flags days containing schedule
items. The week display shows those plus the times occupied.
The daily display gives the descriptions.
	There is a Locate function to find times in a given
week when a meeting could be scheduled, and the S command can
schedule meetings for multiple users. To do this, a special file
(normally other than DTC.DAT; the F command lets you change files
used) with pointers to peoples' DTC.DAT files is used. The
pointer entry is distinguished by having 99 in its' year field
(see the furnished DTC.DAT for example) and the file specifier
(terminated by an = sign) instead of an appointment. The S
command will drop appointments into files so pointed to, but not
into the current (pointer) file, while the D command drops
appointments into the current file only, not pointers. the F
command drops notices into both.
	The default date/time starts out as today, but is whatever
was last set up.
	There are 3 commands to give you a one day snapshot
too:

DTC T {optional date}
	-- shows the daily display either for Today or for the date
		if one is included
DTC R {optional date in mmddyy form}
	-- shows the DTC weekly display (Reminder of scheduled meetings)
		for the current week or the one containing the day
		given if any
DTC C {optional mmyy}
	-- Shows the month currently or the one specified if one is given
		and flags busy days.



		Glenn Everhart