CALPORT - Version 2
C. Wrandle Barth 72500,63
Washington, DC
September 29, 1990

This is a small program I wrote that will take a calendar from
WordPerfect Library (and I suppose WordPerfect Office) and export it
to the Portfolio.  It is quite oriented to the way I use the WP
calendar.  I'd be happy to make minor changes if people want, but have
only a limited amount of time.  The technique is as follows.

Within WP Calendar, I print the calendar for the next year to a file.
(It need not be for a whole year, but I find this most useful.)
I have a Desqview macro I use to do this as well as print a paper
calendar for the week which I run every day (since it takes a few
keystrokes). Then I run CALPORT against this file to produce
DIARY.DRY.  Finally I use the parallel port transfer program to
download this to the Portfolio, replacing the previous version.
During the day, I use the PORT as my calendar for future events and
for temporary additions (alarm to leave work or the like).  Things I
want to add to my calendar for future days, however, I write on the
paper "this week" copy to be added the next morning.  I view the PORT
copy as just a shadow copy of the master WP Calendar.

Since the PORT calendar insists on having a time stamp on everything I
translate the memo field for the day to time 11:00pm and items
in the todo list to time 11:nn pm (actually "23:nn") where nn is the
priority of the item.  I do not use priorities higher than 59;
anything higher than that is just put at time 23:59.  (Note:  this is
the major change in this version.  The original version used 00:nn
times, but this makes the todo-list precede real appointments, making
them harder to find.  I also added handling for ending time lines and
now mark todo's with a daily flag so they will move forward day-to-day
on the Portfolio if you don't download a new copy.)

Todo items that are marked with "." are dropped unless they are for
"today."  The logic of this is that most of the items in the future
that are "." are regularly scheduled items.  (For example, I have an
item to water my office plant on every M-W-F;  I don't need that
cluttering up the Portfolio calendar.)  Today's "." items are things I
want to do today but want to drop automatically when I move to
tomorrow on the WP side, so I copy them to the Portfolio (without the
daily flag).

To run CALPORT, just enter

CALPORT <from> <to>

where the <from> is the WordPerfect Calendar file produced by printing
to a file, <to> is the copy to be downloaded to the Portfolio
(normally DIARY.DRY).