Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:35:41 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: viewing vCalendar files Message-ID: <20080610213541.GC79442@kokopelli.hydra> In-Reply-To: <EB0935FF-E2E9-4B5E-8AD4-FE77E6CB2D28@sentex.net> References: <20080610174708.GB75976@kokopelli.hydra> <EB0935FF-E2E9-4B5E-8AD4-FE77E6CB2D28@sentex.net>
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--/Uq4LBwYP4y1W6pO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 04:27:46PM -0400, Andrew Berry wrote: > On 10-Jun-08, at 1:47 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: >=20 > >I've been sent a vCalendar file via email. I use mutt as my mail user > >agent, and am not terribly interested in switching to mail/claws-mail > >just so I can read this vCalendar file (generated in MS Outlook). > > > >Is there some command line tool that will create a readable text file > >from this, a Mutt extension that can handle it, or anything along =20 > >those > >lines, in Ports? What are my options, besides just deleting all the > >vCalendar markup cruft by hand (or writing a script to do it for me)? >=20 > If you just need to read it, then open it up in a text editor. =20 > vCalendar / iCalendar markup is pretty simple. Virtually any =20 > calendaring app should be able to read the file, including Mozilla =20 > Sunbird, Evolution, Kontact, and so on. There are also web calendars =20 > such as Webcalendar in ports, or you could just use Google Calendar. >=20 > If the sender is expecting a vCal file back to confirm / deny the =20 > appointment, then you'll need to make sure that you send back a valid =20 > file. I find the way it's formatted difficult to parse, particularly when it's a relatively long and complex file. I just finished using Perl to create a (better formatted) plain text version of the file -- and that worked for this one instance. It seems odd to me that there isn't a widely distributed console-based program that can be used to clean up vCalendar files, though. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Philip Machanick: "caution: if you write code like this, immediately after you are fired the person assigned to maintaining your code after you leave will resign" --/Uq4LBwYP4y1W6pO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkhO860ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXoAgCffoS17y5SEMj0MK/FNfg6bW+J kG4AoNvHaa1ulMdiap1MSx+rg8U++UMj =Sr3m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/Uq4LBwYP4y1W6pO--
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