From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 3 08:51:37 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA06337 for current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 08:51:37 -0800 Received: from fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA06328 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 08:51:34 -0800 Received: (from jfieber@localhost) by fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA15937; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 11:50:14 -0500 Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 11:50:14 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu To: Wolfram Schneider cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new calendar(1), please test In-Reply-To: <199512011006.LAA17570@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 1 Dec 1995, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > Garrett A. Wollman writes: > >< said: > > >Because it's a bad idea, particular with networked home directories, > >but also in general. (If I want the output of `calendar' mailed to > >me, I'll set up a cron job to do it myself, or run it from my > >.profile.) > > Agreed. Agreed. > I add the options -A > and -B . Instead reading 20 calendar > mails back from holiday just type: $ calendar -B 20 What I would prefer (and implemented in GUI calendar i wrote when I had an Amiga) is an advance parameter in the calendar file itself. For random trivia dates, I don't want any advanced notice, but for birthdays and such, I want about a week advance. A global option is not too useful because of this. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============