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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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