Re: linux appears to be missing calendar program

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

At 11:35 PM 6/21/2003 -0400, jude dashiell wrote:
>Unix has a calendar capability.  If you have a file called .calendar in
>your home directory on a Unix system, when dates and events come due that
>are listed in that file the system can be so arranged that a user will get
>email reminders about those events.  That particular function of Unix most
>definitely present in freebsd has been responsible for saving marriages
>because husbands didn't forget their aniverserary dates among other dates.
>In these other versions of unix, the calendar management can get done
>without having to use emacs or python as an example.


Oh, now I get it. (Your earlier reference to Outlook threw me off.)

Actually, I find I have this very utility ("calendar") on my Linux system, 
installed from a Debian package called "bsdmainutils". You might see if 
your distro has a similar package.

Yes, remind is another possibility. The Debian package system also lists 
"birthday", described as follows:

         Description: Display information about pending events on login
         Given a list of the dates of various different events, works out and
         displays a list of those which will come up in the next couple of
         weeks. This was originally designed for birthdays, but can equally be
         used for reminders about yearly events, or for a running diary.

So there do seem to be some good options here.

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