		 README for Sports Schedule Programs
				   
			   George Ferguson
		      ferguson@cs.rochester.edu
				   
			     15 Mar 1994


** Do not contact me asking for schedules!!! If I decide to input data **
** for a new league or seaosn, you can be sure I'll share it with the  **
** net. Mail asking for new schedule data will be ignored at best.     **

This distribution contains a driver program, schedule.c, that can be
combined with league- and season-specific information to provide
information about sports league schedules. The package comes with
some schedule data and provides tools and instructions for adding new
ones.

The program provides the following information:
	- League schedule for given dates (default today)
	- Upcoming games for team or division
	- Upcoming games between two teams, one team and one division,
	  or two divisions
	- Both upcoming games displays can be restricted to home or
	  away games only
More details are available in the manpage, or by invoking one of the
programs with the "-help" option. In addition to printing the command
syntax, this lists acceptable team and division names.

Please read the file INSTALLING for information about building the
schedule programs. Please read the file UPDATING if you want to add
new schedules.

NOTE: When reporting bugs, please include the version information from
      patchlevel.h (or from running with the -v option). If the
      problem is with the schedule information, as opposed to the
      program itself, please contact the person listed as
      VERSION_ENTERER in the datafile (and printed by -v).

CREDITS:

  Original program concept by Len Carr, used with permission.

  All other features created by Rob Springall (rgs7077@ultb.isc.rit.edu,
  rgs7077@ritvax.bitnet), except for the neutral site games feature,
  created by Tom Wilson (twilson@dab.ge.com).

  Maintained through 1992-93 season by: Valerie Hammerl
  (hammerl@acsu.buffalo.edu) and Rob Springall.

  Re-constructed for 1993-94 by George Ferguson (ferguson@cs.rochester.edu),
  who also added head-to-head modes, wrote the manpage and put together
  the distribution kit. I then went and generalizes the whole thing so
  that it could be more gracefully extended to support other leagues.
  As proof of concept, I went and did the MLB 94 data.

HISTORY:
  15 Mar 1994: Version 2.0
    - First version of generalized schedule program, rather than just nhl.
    - Includes NHL93-94 and MLB94 data by me.
    - European dates definable at compile-time, from Steve Harries
      (sjh@kau1.kodak.com) 
    - NBA93-94 data from C. L. McAvaney (chrismc@deakin.edu.au)

   6 Sep 1993:
    - Added -H and -A options.

  30 Aug 1993:
    - Don't include <sys/time.h> for MSDOS machines.
    - Use time() rather than gettimeofday() for MSDOS machines and ok
      for others.
      <Janusz_Ziemianski@mindlink.bc.ca> and others
    - Added -v flag and patchlevel.h file.

  20 Aug 1993: First official release.
