From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 4 04:17:23 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA27459 for current-outgoing; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 04:17:23 -0800 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA27454 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 04:17:19 -0800 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id EAA09113 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 04:15:39 -0800 Received: from caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (wosch@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.12]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA03852; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 11:27:20 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider Received: (wosch@localhost) by caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA06401; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 11:27:15 +0100 Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 11:27:15 +0100 Message-Id: <199512041027.LAA06401@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> To: John Fieber Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new calendar(1), please test In-Reply-To: References: <199512011006.LAA17570@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >> 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. Put your "sensitive" data into a separate file (~/.calendar/mybirthdays) and start ``calendar -f mybirthdays -A 7'' Wolfram