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calendar                     Command                     calendar




Reminder service

ccaalleennddaarr [ -aa ]

calendar is the COHERENT system's ``reminder service''.  It reads
a user's  $HOME directory and looks for  a file called .calendar.
This file  contains information  organized by date.   If calendar
finds .calendar,  it reads it and checks the  date of each entry;
if an  event is scheduled to happen today  or tomorrow, it prints
it.  Thus,  you can use  calendar to remind you  of both one-time
events (such as appointments) and yearly events (such as anniver-
saries).

The following  gives an example  of a .calendar  file.  Note that
ccaalleennddaarr understands different formats of dates:


     Apr 16  Dave's birthday
     7/6     Dad's birthday
     Sep 26  Mom's birthday
     Jun 30  Barry's birthday
     10/4    Marianne's birthday
     Jul 31  Anniversary!
     Mar 16  Pot luck luncheon


Each user can run calendar by embedding the command


     calendar


in his .pprrooffiillee.

If you wish, you can  run calendar automatically for all users on
your system, by inserting it into file /usr/lib/crontab.  In this
case, calendar  should be  used with  its -a option;  this forces
calendar to  search every user's $HOME  directory for a .ccaalleennddaarr
file, and mail the appointments it finds to that user.

Note that calendar's  definition of tomorrow understands weekends
but not  holidays; thus, if  invoked on a Friday,  it will return
the events  for that day and the  following Saturday, Sunday, and
Monday.  If  Monday is a  holiday, however, you  will not receive
appointments for Tuesday.

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