Here is the alternate help for the calendar in ProIcon. This program accepts a year of the Jewish calendar, for example "5750", and produces on the screen a calendar of that year with a visually equivalent civil calendar opposite it for easy conversion of dates. The months of the civil year are abbreviated to JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC and of the Jewish calendar to NIS IYA SIV TAM AV ELU TIS HES KIS TEV SHE ADA AD2. Months are normally displayed three at a time. You call up the next three by hitting the space bar (or any other character). You may conclude at this point if you wish by clicking on the word "Run" at the top of the screen, dragging down to "Stop" and releasing. At the end of the year you can indicate if you wish to view the next following year by entering the letter "y" in response to the question, Do you wish to continue? If you enter "n" the program will conclude, or go on to the next year you wished to see if you called the program with multiple entries of years. (See below.) Each Jewish month has its name on the left. The corresponding secular dates will have the name of the month on the right, and when the month changes it will be indicated on the right also. If you wish, you may enter a civil year in the form -70 for BCE dates and +70 for CE dates. The Jewish year beginning prior to Jan 1 of that year will be displayed, and you can continue with the next Jewish year if you wish to complete the desired civil year. You may enter CE or AD instead of +, or BC or BCE instead of the minus sign if you wish. Avoid spaces, so enter 1987AD, for example. The year 0 is not meaningful in either calendar. No date prior to 1 in the Jewish calendar should be entered. The program will calculate any future year, but will take longer for years much beyond the year 6020 in the Jewish reckoning. For example, the year 7000 will take three minutes or so to appear. Earlier years should appear in a few seconds. A status line at the bottom of the screen indicates the civil and Jewish year, and the number of days in each. Jewish years may contain 354, 355, 356, 384, 385 or 386 days according to circumstances. When you are familiar with this program you can enter any number of years you wish to see. Before you start the program, click on "Options", drag to "Parameter String" and release. You can then enter, for example 5704 +1987 1BC then click on the box marked "OK". If you want to change these later, go back to "Options" and type in your new list. You will see in turn the Jewish year 5704, the Jewish year commencing in 1986 and the Jewish year commencing in 2 B.C.E. You still have the option of seeing the years subsequent to these years if you wish. Just enter "y" when asked if you want to continue. When you enter "n", you will get the next year of your original list. When you are completely through with the program, click on "File" at the top of the screen, drag to "Quit" and release. If you wish you can drag to "Transfer" and you will see a dialogue box to transfer to another program, or to Hypercard. All civil dates are according to the Gregorian Calendar which first came into use in 1582 and was accepted in different places at different times. Prior to that date the Julian calendar was in use. At the present time the Julian calendar is 13 days behind the Gregorian Calendar, so that January 20 1990 in our reckoning is January 7 in the Julian Calendar. The following table shows the number of days that must be subtracted from the Gregorian date given here to find the Julian date. In the centuries before the current era the calendar was intercalated erratically, so a simple subtraction is not possible. Century # to subtract Century # to subtract 21 13 11 6 20 13 10 5 19 12 9 4 18 11 8 4 17 10 7 3 16 10 6 2 15 9 5 1 14 8 4 1 13 7 3 0 12 7 2 -1 1 -2