ok, i give up...

[Chip Camden]

Quoth Gary Kline on Wednesday, 28 July 2010:
> 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>
> 
> 
> i have forgotten the exact name of the ascii datafile and the calander
> program.  can't find it in ports despite around 2.75 hours of "make
> search key=calender |grep -1 Info" | more ....
> 
> I'm pretty sure i wasn't//am NOT hallucinating.  --there was an X popuo
> when the date time was hit.  i had to click on the Popup/dialog? to get
> rid of it.
> 
> anybody know what this was? it goes back at least to the late 1990's.
> 
> tia, y'all,
> 
> gary
> 
> PS: and now, time for a brew.... or maybe a =NAP=....
> 
> [************]
> 
> 
/usr/ports/deskutils/when

my favorite.  I've written a lot of scripts to supplement it, too:

http://chipstips.com/?tag=rbremindwhen

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