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author | rgrimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org> | 1994-05-27 12:33:43 +0000 |
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committer | rgrimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org> | 1994-05-27 12:33:43 +0000 |
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diff --git a/usr.bin/calendar/calendar.1 b/usr.bin/calendar/calendar.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1ffa5e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.bin/calendar/calendar.1 @@ -0,0 +1,145 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)calendar.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/29/93 +.\" +.Dd June 29, 1993 +.Dt CALENDAR 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm calendar +.Nd reminder service +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm calendar +.Op Fl a +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm Calendar +checks the current directory for a file named +.Pa calendar +and displays lines that begin with either today's date +or tomorrow's. +On Fridays, events on Friday through Monday are displayed. +.Pp +The following options are available: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Fl a +Process the ``calendar'' files of all users and mail the results +to them. +This requires super-user privileges. +.El +.Pp +Lines should begin with a month and day. +They may be entered in almost any format, either numeric or as character +strings. +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, allowing +multiple line specifications for a single date. +By convention, dates followed by an asterisk are not fixed, i.e., change +from year to year. +.Pp +The ``calendar'' file is preprocessed by +.Xr cpp 1 , +allowing the inclusion of shared files such as company holidays or +meetings. +If the shared file is not referenced by a full pathname, +.Xr cpp 1 +searches in the current (or home) directory first, and then in the +directory +.Pa /usr/share/calendar . +Empty lines and lines protected by the C commenting syntax +.Pq Li /* ... */ +are ignored. +.Pp +Some possible calendar entries: +.Bd -unfilled -offset indent +#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. +.Ed +.Sh FILES +The following default calendar files are provided: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width calendar.christian -compact +.It Pa calendar.birthday +Births and deaths of famous (and not-so-famous) people. +.It Pa calendar.christian +Christian holidays. +This calendar should be updated yearly by the local system administrator +so that roving holidays are set correctly for the current year. +.It Pa calendar.computer +Days of special significance to computer people. +.It Pa calendar.history +Everything else, mostly U. S. historical events. +.It Pa calendar.holiday +Other holidays, including the not-well-known, obscure, and +.Em really +obscure. +.It Pa calendar.judaic +Jewish holidays. +This calendar should be updated yearly by the local system administrator +so that roving holidays are set correctly for the current year. +.It Pa calendar.music +Musical events, births, and deaths. +Strongly oriented toward rock 'n' roll. +.It Pa calendar.usholiday +U.S. holidays. +This calendar should be updated yearly by the local system administrator +so that roving holidays are set correctly for the current year. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr at 1 , +.Xr cpp 1 , +.Xr cron 8 +.Xr mail 1 , +.Sh COMPATIBILITY +The +.Nm calendar +program previously selected lines which had the correct date anywhere +in the line. +This is no longer true, the date is only recognized when it occurs +first on the line. +.Sh HISTORY +A +.Nm +command appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX. +.Sh BUGS +.Nm Calendar +doesn't handle events that move around from year to year, i.e., +``the last Monday in April''. |