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and subject line Re: Bug#656393: bsdmainutils: cal does not support same
options as ncal
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regarding bsdmainutils: cal does not support same options as ncal
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Package: bsdmainutils
Version: 8.2.3
Severity: normal
The -M option works with ncal, but not cal, despite being the same binary.
nemo@falcon ~ % cal -M
Usage: cal [general options] [-hjy] [[month] year]
cal [general options] [-hj] [-m month] [year]
ncal [general options] [-bhJjpwySM] [-s country_code] [[month] year]
ncal [general options] [-bhJeoSM] [year]
General options: [-NC3] [-A months] [-B months]
For debug the highlighting: [-H yyyy-mm-dd] [-d yyyy-mm]
nemo@falcon ~ % ncal -M -C
January 2012
Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31
nemo@falcon ~ %
The '-C' option included to ncal to make it print in 'cal' type format. I
notice also that 'ncal -C -M' does not work - gives the same error as 'cal -M'
above.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages bsdmainutils depends on:
ii bsdutils 1:2.19.1-5
ii debianutils 4.1
ii libc6 2.13-24
ii libncurses5 5.9-4
bsdmainutils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages bsdmainutils suggests:
pn cpp 4:4.6.1-3
pn vacation <none>
pn wamerican | wordlist <none>
pn whois <none>
-- no debconf information
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This is not a bug but a feature. And documented it is, too, as you yourself
quote:
> nemo@falcon ~ % cal -M
> Usage: cal [general options] [-hjy] [[month] year]
> cal [general options] [-hj] [-m month] [year]
> ncal [general options] [-bhJjpwySM] [-s country_code] [[month] year]
> ncal [general options] [-bhJeoSM] [year]
> General options: [-NC3] [-A months] [-B months]
> For debug the highlighting: [-H yyyy-mm-dd] [-d yyyy-mm]
> ...
> The '-C' option included to ncal to make it print in 'cal' type format. I
No, this is not true. '-C' makes ncal behave as cal, not just print. If you
want the cal format in ncal please use '-b'.
Michael
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