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From: JMEYERS@MTUS5.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP-95LX Review: I Just Got One!
Message-ID: <91127.105237JMEYERS@MTUS5.BITNET>
Date: 7 May 91 15:52:37 GMT
References: <52533@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
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In article <52533@apple.Apple.COM>, dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) says:

>Oh yes, the tragic flaw of the appointment mode: you cannot set
>repeating appointments for every other week, or every other day, or any
>non-standard interval.  All repeating appointments must be daily,
>weekly, monthly, or yearly, although you can create appointments of the
>style First Tuesday of each month.

I don't have an HP-95LX; however, I do have an HP-48SX with a similar
kind of appointment alarm set up.  The idea that I had (which will work
on the HP-48SX but since I am unfamiliar with the HP-95LX am not sure if
it has the capability to do the same thing.) was to schedule an alarm
that executes a program which checks a user flag (or variable if no user
flags ara available) which will indicate if it is the proper week for the
alarm to sound.  If it is then sound the alarm.  If not, then ignore the
alarm.  Like I said, I know that this kind of thing (with possible minor
modifications) will work on an HP-48SX.  I would suspect that there might
be a way to implement something like this on the HP-95LX.
Sincerely,
Jason P. Meyers

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