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Date:      Thu, 30 Nov 1995 10:50:48 -0500
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman), wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: new calendar(1), please test
Message-ID:  <9511301550.AA08552@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199511300758.IAA18766@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References:  <9511281526.AA03545@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199511300758.IAA18766@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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<<On Thu, 30 Nov 1995 08:57:59 +0100 (MET), J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> said:

> As Garrett A. Wollman wrote:
>> 
>> `calendar -a' needs to die.

> Why?

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.)

-GAWollman

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