Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 11:27:15 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new calendar(1), please test Message-ID: <199512041027.LAA06401@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951203114153.8132K-100000@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu> References: <199512011006.LAA17570@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> <Pine.BSF.3.91.951203114153.8132K-100000@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu>
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>> 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. Put your "sensitive" data into a separate file (~/.calendar/mybirthdays) and start ``calendar -f mybirthdays -A 7'' Wolfram
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