ok, i give up...

Gary Kline kline at thought.org
Sat Jul 31 19:08:13 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 03:40:00PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:08:20PM -0700, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
> >
> > Frank Shute <frank at 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


> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> 
>  Frank
> 
>  Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
> 
> 

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