Quoth Gary Kline on Saturday, 31 July 2010: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 03:40:00PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:08:20PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > > > > Frank Shute <fr...@shute.org.uk> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 07:04:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog > > > > > than i had YEARS ago. cannot find. > > > > > > > > > > it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii. things like > > > > > > > > > > <QUOTE> > > > > > > > > > > # Bill's birthday: > > > > > 08 08 echo "Send Bill a birthday card. > > > > > > > > > > # watch one-time broadcast!! > > > > > 08 09 2010 echo: "Watch PBS show at 20:00 hours" > > > > > > > > > > </QUOTE> > > > ... > > > > deskutils/ical ? > > > > > > Good program, but probably not what the OP had in mind. > > > ical's .calendar file, while ascii, is in a structured > > > format which would be a bit of a pain to edit by hand; > > > and I don't recall its being set up to send email. > > > > > > > No, it's not able to send email AFAIK. > > > > If Gary just wants reminders of when to take pills, then I would > > recommend him to use at(1) and get it to call a file which calls > > xmessage at the correct times of day. E.g. that file contains: > > > > export DISPLAY=":0.0" > > xmessage -geom 100x100+100+100 "Take pills!" > > > > or if you want to use email use mail(1) and at(1) > > > > I don't think anybodys mentioned at(1). It's in base and not a port, > > xmessage is a port. > > > > > > This might work for ssomething like a reminder to down my pills. > I completely forgot about 'at'. > > :- > ) > > gary
Using the 'when' scripts I developed, you can generate reminders that will pipe to anything, including mail or xmessage (http://chipstips.com/?tag=rbremindwhen) I send mine to my xmobar in bright yellow, so it gets my attention but doesn't require me to close a dialog or anything. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > -- > > > > Frank > > > > Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html > > > > > > -- > Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix > The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php > http://journey.thought.org 99 44/100% Guaranteed Novel > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com
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