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CALENDAR

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NAME

calendar - reminder service

SYNOPSIS

calendar[-a]

DESCRIPTION

The calendarutility checks the current directory or the directory specified by the``CALENDAR_DIR''environment variable for a file namedcalendarand displays lines that begin with either today's dateor tomorrow's.On Fridays, events on Friday through Monday are displayed.

The following options are available:

-a: Process the ``calendar'' files of all users and mail the resultsto them.This requires super-user privileges.

Lines should begin with a month and day.They may be entered in almost any format, either numeric or as characterstrings.A single asterisk (``*'') matches every month.A day without a month matches that day of every week.A month without a day matches the first of that month.Two numbers default to the month followed by the day.Lines with leading tabs default to the last entered date, allowingmultiple line specifications for a single date.By convention, dates followed by an asterisk are not fixed, i.e., changefrom year to year.

The ``calendar'' file is preprocessed bycpp(1),allowing the inclusion of shared files such as company holidays ormeetings.If the shared file is not referenced by a full pathname,cpp(1)searches in the current (or home) directory first, and then in thedirectory/usr/share/calendar Empty lines and lines protected by the C commenting syntax(/* ... */)are ignored.

Some possible calendar entries:

#include        <calendar.usholiday>#include        <calendar.birthday>6/15            ... June 15 (if ambiguous, will default to month/day).Jun. 15         ... June 15.15 June         ... June 15.Thursday        ... Every Thursday.June            ... Every June 1st.15 *            ... 15th of every month.

FILES

The following default calendar files are provided:

calendar.birthday: Births and deaths of famous (and not-so-famous) people.
calendar.christian: Christian holidays.This calendar should be updated yearly by the local system administratorso that roving holidays are set correctly for the current year.
calendar.computer: Days of special significance to computer people.
calendar.history: Everything else, mostly U. S. historical events.
calendar.holiday: Other holidays, including the not-well-known, obscure, andreallyobscure.
calendar.judaic: Jewish holidays.This calendar should be updated yearly by the local system administratorso that roving holidays are set correctly for the current year.
calendar.music: Musical events, births, and deaths.Strongly oriented toward rock 'n' roll.
calendar.usholiday: U.S. holidays.This calendar should be updated yearly by the local system administratorso that roving holidays are set correctly for the current year.

COMPATIBILITY

Thecalendarprogram previously selected lines which had the correct date anywherein the line.This is no longer true, the date is only recognized when it occursfirst on the line.

HISTORY

Acalendarcommand appeared in AT&T Systemv7 .

BUGS

Calendardoesn't handle events that move around from year to year, i.e.,``the last Monday in April''.

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