		     mcountd - millennium count down
			       version 0.4
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 Copyright (c) 2000	Karl-Martin Skontorp <kms@users.sourceforge.net>
		     	Martin Dahl <dahlm@vf.telia.no>
                    	Anders Hermansen <ahermans@vf.telia.no>

This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, 
and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. For 
details read the included file COPYING.

KNOWN BUGS:
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TODO:
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- Autoconf/automake.
- Ncurses.
- Font scaling.
- Inbuilt date/time parsing.


AVAILABILITY:
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http://mcountd.sourceforge.net
ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/mcountd/


INTRODUCTION:
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The intention of this program is to provide an extremely simple count down 
clock to a specific date and time using large numbers in "ASCII-art".


COMPILING:
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Edit the Makefile and make necessary changes. Then do a make.

Any install routine in the Makefile is not provided.


HOW TO USE IT:
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If a targettime is not specified, 01.01.2000 00:00:00 will be used. 

For setting the targettime to 29.03.2000 00:00:00, something like this can 
be used:

mcountd -t `date +"%s" -d "29 Mar 2000 00:00:00"`

Se 'mcountd -h' for more options.


CREDITS:
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Thanks to Martin Dahl and Anders Hermansen for writing the code that print
numbers. The routine for calculating time left is taken from WMy2k which
is written by Hadess <hadess@writeme.com>. 

Joe Bentley has provided some bugfixes. He has also come up with various
suggestions, most of these are still to be implemented.
