"TIM" by Pete Sipple
              Written for the Psion Series 3  (Nov 1993)


This is a shortish procedure that has been designed to aid radio presenters and
'tape-ops", by making the business of backtiming music and commercials easier.

The supplied procedure, called TIM.OPO is far from perfect and does not come
with any documentation other than this file, and no on-line help.

If TIM.OPO fulfills anyone else's needs, then I'll be happy to expand / amend
the procedure, or write a more complete set of instructions

Copy TIM.OPO into the \OPO\ directory of your Psion.

The procedure creates a small file called TIMES in the \OPD\ directory,
where it stores it's time information. This allows you to quit the procedure
and re-run it with the same data.

TIM.OPO allows the user to add or subtract minutes and seconds in the following
categories:

Music
Talk
Ads
News
Idents

The procedure then totals the times and woks out a backtime from the next
hour.

From the Tim screen, the options shown should speak for themselves.

Use the "Add to" option to select one of the above categories. The CALC
option (default) will NOT add to the total time. This is to allow rough
calculations to be made without affecting the hour's backtime.

The "Action" option contains "Add" "Subtract" and "Reset" options, which
will only affect the category shown in the "Add to" dialog.


This probably makes no sense at all, but it should be possible to
struggle through without any additional information.


Please let me know your comments or suggestions regarding this procedure.

I can be reached at:

51 Eastwood Boulevard
Westcliff-on-Sea
Essex
SS0 0BY

or in the "PSION" or "BCAST_RADIO" Fido echos.



Although this procedure is not over user-friendly, it is at least fairly
stable. However, I cannot accept any liability for loss, damage, or 
crashed news reports, as a result of using this procedure.

TIM.OPO is released into Public Domain, and I am not looking for any
payment for this procedure.

I hope that you find this procedure useful.





Written by: Pete Sipple
            29 November 1993