Sam Paulson (FidoNet POWER_BAS Echo)
DATE & TIME TSR
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'In an interesting conversation between Sam Paulson and "Unnamed" he wrote:

'>> Is it normal for a PowerBASIC TSR to take up 94k of RAM?
'>> All my program does is display the time and date.
'> Do you mean when it is waiting to be invoked or when it is
'> actually running?

'While it is waiting to be invoked.  My offline mail reader (SLMR)
'displays the amount of memory available, so I checked to see what
'it said with both the TSR loaded and unloaded, and there was a 94k
'difference.

'> I'm using PB 3.1 here and the several "test" TSR's I've written
'> seem to be about 5K in size when they are waiting to be triggered.
'> I've never checked how large they are when actually running but I'd
'> expect them to be a lot bigger since the mechanism swaps whatever
'> is running out while it loads the running code for the TSR.

'I use PB 3.00a, and my program was just a first attempt at writing
'a TSR with PB.  Using the example from one of the online help topics,
'I figured out how to leave the disk swapping out of the program (takes
'forever to load on a floppy-only system like mine), so maybe that's
'the reason.

'I guess my program isn't any big secret <g>, so here it is for all to
'examine (and poke fun at):
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'Time & Date TSR

$compile exe
$lib iprint off
$option cntlbreak off

x& = setmem(-700000)
popup key chr$(8,30,247)
popup multiplex &HC000,254
reg 1,&HC000 : reg 4,254
call interrupt &H2F
if reg(1) <> &HC000 and reg(4) <> 254 then end
print "Time & Date Installed. Press Alt-A to activate."
reg 1,&HC001 : reg 4,252
popup sleep

while 1=1
  x% = pos         : y% = csrlin
  def seg = &hB800 : savedSreen$ = peek$(0,4000)

  color 9,1 : Center 11, ""
      Center 12, "                   "
      Center 13, "                   "

  if reg(1) = &HC000 and reg(4) = 254 then
     Center 14, ""
     color 15,1 : Center 12, "Time & Date"
  Center 13, "Already Installed"
     i$ = input$(1)
  else
     Center 14, "<U>ninstall"
     color 15,1 : while a$ = ""
                     a$ = inkey$
     TimeConvert tim$ : Center 12, tim$
     DateConvert dat$ : Center 13, dat$
                  wend
  end if

  poke$ 0, savedSreen$
  locate y%, x%
  if lcase$(a$) = "u" then if popup(1) then end
  reg 1, &HC001 : reg 4,252
  a$ = ""
  popup sleep
wend

sub DateConvert (dat$) static
   'date format = 05-23-1995
   restore
   d = val(left$(date$, 2))
   for i = 1 to 12
   read month$
   if i = d then
      dat$ = month$ + " " + mid$(date$,4,2) + ", " + mid$(date$,7,4)
      if val(mid$(date$,4,1)) = 0 then
         dat$ = month$ + " " + mid$(date$,5,1) + ", " + mid$(date$,7,4)
      end if
   end if
   next i
   data January,February,March,April,May,June,July,August,September,Octc
end sub

sub TimeConvert (tim$) static
   'time format = 05:35:20.43
   if val(left$(time$,2)) > 12 then
      tim$ = str$(val(left$(time$,2)) - 12) + mid$(time$,3,3) + "pm"
   else
      tim$ = left$(time$, 5) + "am"
      if val(left$(time$,1)) < 1 then tim$ = mid$(time$,2,4) + "am"
      if val(left$(time$,2)) < 1 then tim$ = "  12" + mid$(time$,3,3) +
   end if
end sub

sub Center (lineNumber%, text$)
   row% = (80 - len(text$)) \ 2
   locate lineNumber%, row%
   print text$;
end sub