# this is my 'reserve' script with mild adaptations so that is can be used to
# indicate where someone in your group is, if not in the office.
#
# I cooked this up to mimic the tool we were using before this: the whiteboard.
# The columns are days, the rows people.  The resolution is to 1/2
# a day.
#
# When 'installing', there are (I expect) two minor things to worry about:
# the global variable 'work_dir' should be set to some public read/write
# NFS dir to which everyone in the group has access, and the permissions
# on this dir need to be such that everyone in the group can write to the
# files and the directory.  Look for 'EDIT THE NEXT LINE' at the bottom
# of this gibberish.
#
# To log an 'absence', one clicks on the person button at the far left;
# this 'locks' the person for two minutes to keep things consistent.  The
# lock is automatically deleted if the person isn't unlocked within that time.
# Then, one clicks MB1 on a particular day (on the left half to start from
# morning, on the right half to start in afternoon) and drags to the right
# until the last morning/afternoon is reached. Them MB1 is released. A 
# absence form will immediately pop up which gets info like reason, phone
# number where you can be reached, etc.  You may wish to changed this.
#
# To delete an notation, allocate a person and click MB3 on the notation.
#
# The rest is, hopefully, self-explanatory.
#
# To view a notation click MB1 on a notation. (making and viewing
# notation are mutually exclusive: when a peron is 'allocated', you can
# only make notation; when *no* peron is 'allocated', you can view
# notation.)
#
# Into the 'work_dir' goes everything except the wish script 'absence'
# They belong in a directory for scripts/executables in everyone's path.
#
# everything else is:
#	common.tcl		routines common to the tk script 'reserve', and
#				the character-cell version, reserve_vt
#	icon.bm
#	ex_screen.bm,
#	diag_stripe_thick.bm	bitmaps
#	res_help.tcl		help routines
#
# I can imagine that this might be useful to someone.  I hope so.
# -Rob Urban, urban@mfr.dec.com