Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 21:42:08 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Subject: Re: new calendar(1), please test Message-ID: <199511302042.VAA20238@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9511301550.AA08552@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Nov 30, 95 10:50:48 am
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As Garrett A. Wollman wrote: > > >> `calendar -a' needs to die. > > > Why? > > Because it's a bad idea, particular with networked home directories, > but also in general. (If I want the output of `calendar' mailed to > me, I'll set up a cron job to do it myself, or run it from my > .profile.) So we should convert the -a option into another option that would process the calendar file, match the entries for today and tomorrow, and finally print them on stdout. This way, the user is free to use _this_ option in order to mail the output. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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