Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 11:50:14 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new calendar(1), please test Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951203114153.8132K-100000@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199512011006.LAA17570@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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On Fri, 1 Dec 1995, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > Garrett A. Wollman writes: > ><<On Thu, 30 Nov 1995 08:57:59 +0100 (MET), J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 <num days after current date> > and -B <num days before current date>. 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 ============
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