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.TH CALENDAR 1 "6 July 1998" GNO "Commands and Applications"
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.SH NAME
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.BR calendar
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\- reminder service
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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calendar
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.BR calendar
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consults the file
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.B calendar
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in the current directory
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and prints out lines that contain today's or tomorrow's date
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anywhere in the line. Most reasonable month-day dates such as
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.IR "Aug. 24" ,
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.IR "august 24" ,
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.IR "8/24",
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and so on, are recognized, but not
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.IR "24 August"
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or
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.IR "24/8" .
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On weekends ``tomorrow'' extends through Monday.
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.BR calendar
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can be invoked regularly by using the
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.BR crontab (1)
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or
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.BR at (1)
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commands.
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.SH EXAMPLE
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A common way to run
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.BR calendar
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is to have the following line in your
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.B gshrc
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file:
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.nf
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/usr/games/calendar
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.fi
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If the file $HOME/calendar contains entries like
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.nf
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Dec 25 No more shopping days until Christmas.
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Jul 1 Dominion Day (Canada).
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.fi
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then the appropriate calendar entries will be printed every time you
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login in.
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.SH CAVEATS
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.BR calendar 's
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extended idea of ``tomorrow'' does not account for holidays.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR at (1),
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.BR cron (1),
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.BR crontab (1),
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.BR date (1)
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.SH AUTHOR
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Written for GNO by Christopher Neufeld.
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Updated by Marlin Allred.
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