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Islamic Timer for BeOS

IslamicTimer is a software package consisting of programs for generating Islamic Calendars, translating Gregorian/Julian dates to/from dates in the Islamic Calendar, computing prayer time schedules, and for determining the direction of the Qiblah. It also includes a prayers time reminder/ notification service.

Islamic Timer was ported to BeOS by Waleed Kadous (waleed@cse.unsw.edu.au). This port is a temporary solution until a proper BeOS interface is developed.

BeOS Specific Information

The BeOS version offers all the programs discussed below in the bin/ directory. Copy them to somewhere in your path (e.g. /boot/bin or /boot/local/bin - the latter is preferable as it makes BeOS upgrades simpler). The documentation is in the doc/ directory. BeOS source for the program, including modified makefiles can be found in the tar file Itimer21-Be.tar. You may delete this file if you do not want the source.

Included software

This is release 2.1 of IslamicTimer. It includes the following:
hdate
hdate prints the current Islamic (Hijri) date and translates dates between the Hijri calendar and the Gregorian/Julian Calendar. hcal prints calendars (for a Hijri/Gregorian month or an entire year) with both common and Hijri dates.
praytime
a program that generates Islamic prayer time schedules and computes the direction of the Qiblah for any location. The schedules can be generated for both Hijri or Gregorian months or years.
premind
a program that works in conjunction with praytime and provides prayers time notification/ reminder service.
All the programs are Copyrighted to Waleed A. Muhanna. Permission for nonprofit use and redistribution of the software and its documentation is granted without fee. It is under this permission that this port to the BeOS is made possible.

Complements, comments, suggestions, fixes, and additions for the original version can be sent to:

	Waleed A. Muhanna
	P.O. Box 151048
	Columbus, OH 43215
	wmuhanna@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Comments about the BeOS port can be sent to
	Waleed Kadous
	waleed@cse.unsw.edu.au