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- plan - an X/Motif day planner
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-
- This is version 1.3 of plan, first posted May 16, 1993. This version
- includes the long-promised PostScript output, support for Japanese,
- support for the SGI IRIX 5.2 desktop look (makes Motif look like Athena
- on a Gameboy), and lots of new features and several bug fixes.
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-
- Plan is a schedule planner based on X/Motif. It displays a month calendar
- similar to xcal, but every day box is large enough to show appointments
- in small print. By pressing on a day box, the appointments for that day
- can be listed and edited. Appointments are entered with the following
- information (everything except the time is optional):
-
- - the date, time, and length of the appointment
- - an optional text message to be printed,
- - an optional script to be executed,
- - early-warn and late-warn triggers that precede the alarm time
- - repetitions: [n-th] weekdays, days-of-the-month, every n days, yearly
- - optional fast command-line appointment entry
- - flexible ways to specify holidays and vacations
- - extensive context help
-
- The action being taken when a warn or alarm time is reached is programmable;
- by default a window pops up. In addition, a program can be executed, or mail
- can be sent. Other methods of listing appointments (today, this week, next
- week, or a keyword search for regular expressions) are also available. Plan
- can be configured to display times in 12-hour or 24-hour formats, mmddyy and
- ddmmyy date formats, and can show either Monday or Sunday in the leftmost
- column. Three view modes are supported: one month, one year, and one week.
- The week view plots appointments as colored and labelled bars in a hour vs.
- day chart, and allows other users' appointments to be included.
-
- The changes since the last released version (1.2 PL4) are substantial, and
- although I avoided nonportable changes there may be trouble with the more
- esoteric platforms that haven't been beta-tested. I am afraid that there is
- a known bug: the Snooze button in notifier windows doesn't work with some
- X servers. If you have problems, first try the Troubleshooting section in
- the online help texts, then send mail to thomas@bitrot.in-berlin.de.
-
- New features:
- * PostScript output, by Karl Bunch <karl@ttank.ttank.com>
- * Japanese version, by Ogura Yoshito <ogura@ndc.ngsk.sony.co.jp>
- * support for SGI desktop look&feel
- * new RGB icon picture for SGIs running the 4Dwm window manager
- * holiday file accepts #include statements if /lib/cpp is available
- * optional user name in week view before note (new week config popup)
- * rearranged header above month view
- * reads LIB/holiday after reading ~/.holiday
- * new recycle option: every year (for birthdays etc)
- * -t option that prints appointments on a day to stdout
- * Delete-past-entry command now has five maximum-age choices
- * EditRes, by Klaus Guntermann <gunterma@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>
- * better parse_timestring: 100 -> 1:00
- * click day in week view -> edit day
- * swedish holiday file, by Kristian Wedberg <wedberg@mednet.gu.se>
- * switch to today / to a specific date using a text entry popup
- * today now highlighted green in week view
- * in fast warning entry mode, entering '=' uses default warning times
- * first partial week in Jan is counted as 1. See FULLWEEKS in mondraw.c.
- * NODAEMON_ONCE in popup.c is defined to suppress multiple error popups
-
- NEW PLATFORMS:
- * SunOS 4.1.3 with K&R cc, replaces stdarg with varargs if -DVARARGS,
- by Michael P. Shevenell <mshev@express.ctron.com>
- * Sony NEWS with/without gcc, by Ogura Yoshito <ogura@ndc.ngsk.sony.co.jp>
- * Sequent running Dynix/ptx v2.[12], by Mike Gilpin <mgilpin@sequent.com>
-
- NOTE: the comment character in ~/.holiday files was changed from '#' to ':'
- to allow cpp to parse the file. Not changing these characters will cause
- cpp "undefined control" errors.
-
- Have fun,
-
- Thomas
-