ok, i give up...

[Chip Camden]

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, 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

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
> > 
> > 
> 
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