RE: P.S. to simple calendar question

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 Carl:

 A few simple questions:

 1. Why does DIARYYEAR begin with the month of December at the
   top of the file and move backwards towards January? Would
   it not be more conventional to have it move through the
   calander in the opposite direction, i.e., from January
   to December?

 2. You changed the HOLIDAYS programme at some point, and I
   obviously missed the change. I once had all of the Canadian
   civil and religious holidays listed, and now I don't, and
   I really don't want to mess-up your file because of the
   calculations incorporated in it. Would it be possible to
   send me your old HOLIDAYS programme? (It seems to me that
   there were fewer critical calculations incorportated in the
   old version.) I could rename it to something else, and add
   the Canadian material, which to some extent duplicates some
   of the U.S. stuff.

 3. I like CHRONTEMP. I can see myself using that quite a bit.
   It's strange that I missed that one, because I usually
   don't overlook these sorts of aids. I've already set it
   up for the coming academic year.

 4. DIARYMONTH and DIARYENTRY, of course, act as expected.

 Thanks for these useful little programmes.

 Maben W. Poirier