On 2008-10-14 19:11:53 -0400, David F. Skoll wrote: > Jorge Luis wrote: > > > I use remind on FreeBSD 6.2 from ports and on Debian Etch. In both > > cases, remind -c terminates output with a form feed character (^L on > > most terminals), which has the effect of clearing the screen immediately > > after the calendar is drawn. > > That's a hard-coded relic. You can eliminate it by piping the output through: > > sed -e 's/^L//' > > where the ^L is an actual form-feed character, produced (on my xterm anyway) > by typing Control-V Control-L. > > (The purpose of the form-feed was to separate out the monthly > calendars for people who print the ASCII calendars on dot-matrix > printers... remember those? :-))
I narrowed down this behavior. It (the screen-clearing) only occurs when I'm in a PuTTY session from an XP box to either the FreeBSD or the Linux machine. Using remind through OpenSSH from and to either one doesn't exhibit the problem. > > > And pardon me for mixing threads, but I can't seem to feed a date spec > > to the program properly. I've tried every permutation of > > date-month-year, escaped in every way possible, but trying to run remind > > for any day but today produces the help text. What's the proper format > > for the command line date? > > remind -c ~/.reminders 1 Jan 2009 > > works for me. Don't quote anything; "1 Jan 2009" will probably fail. It must be one of the functions or symbolic constants I have defined because it doesn't work for me. Even when I move .reminders out of the way. Odd.... -- JL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This message optimized for teletypes. _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.whatexit.org/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans
