Topic 13 of 32: calendar
Mon, Feb 9, 1998 (08:17) |
Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
Spring has the Unix 'calendar' service, a reminder service that puts a
reminder in your e-mail for events and occurrances happening on the
current day or the next day.
The calendar program is one of those very nifty tools found in Unix,
which many people never use because they don't know about them.
The calendar program is run automatically by the system nightly.
If you have a world-readable file in your home directory called
"calendar", and if there's a line in it that has the current date, or
the next day's date, then that line shows up in your e-mail.
Example, if I had a line in my calendar file such as:
11/24 Happy Anniversary
then on 11/23 and 11/24 I'd get an e-mail that says:
11/24 Happy Anniversary
The system files are just text files; they look exactly like an
individual calendar file would.
You might read the man page for calendar.
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