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- README for XKAL - X Appointment Calendar
-
- George Ferguson, ferguson@cs.rochester.edu
-
- 27 Feb 1990
-
- DISCLAIMER:
-
- This is no longer a BETA release, but there have been drastic
- changes since the original (1.0beta). No doubt the increased complexity
- of the program has introduced many new bugs. While it has been in
- use for some time at our site, there are certainly many bugs left to
- find.
-
- This software is provided as is with no warranty expressed or implied.
- I hope you find it useful, but I won't be held responsible for
- any damage that may occur from reading, compiling, installing or
- using it.
-
- You are free to use any part of this code for other purposes. It
- would be nice if you could keep my name on some part of whatever the
- final product is.
-
-
- INSTALLATION:
-
- 1. Edit the Imakefile to reflect any changes for your site. These
- include setting BINDIR, LIBDIR, and MANDIR if needed, and
- checking CDEBUGFLAGS if debugging or optimization is desired.
-
- This program uses the EzMenu widgets, which provides a resource
- manager interface to the SimpleMenuWidget. You should check the
- definitions in the Imakefile to reflect your installation of
- the EzMenu package. In particular, you may not need the TARGET_MACH
- flag if you only intend to compile for one architecture. Note that
- the version of the EzMenu widgets used with this version (1.10 and
- up) of xkal is slightly changed from that originally in xtex (and in
- xkal 1.0beta). It allows only commas to separate arguments to action
- procedures, rather than whitespace as well, since otherwise it was
- too hard to pass things.
-
- Compiling this program requires the "ad2c" program. You should
- set the AD2C variable as required. Actually, ad2c is only required
- if you change Xkal.ad and want the new defaults compiled in as
- fallback resources. If you don't have ad2c, you probably want
- to remove the line that adds Xkal.ad.h to the "clean" target.
-
- Decide if you want to use the popup alert boxes. More importantly,
- decide if you can compile them. If not (ie. if the subsequent make
- barfs), then comment out the ALERT* definitions and error messages
- will go to stderr.
-
- If you don't have dysize(3) you should uncomment the relevant
- definitions (DYSIZE*) to include it. This includes Ultrix and
- maybe SGI systems.
-
- If you don't have strcasecmp(3) you should uncomment the relevant
- definitions (STRCASECMP*) to include it. This includes at least
- Sun386i systems.
-
- If you have troubles compiling "string-convert.c" due to missing
- or multiple declarations of "XtCXtToolkitError" and the like, just
- remove "string-convert.o" from the definitions of OBJS[123] in the
- Imakefile. This will mean that you will see the message
- Cannot convert string "NULL" to type Widget
- on startup, but otherwise doesn't affect xkal's operation.
-
- 2. You may want to change defaults in Xkal.ad; consult the man page for
- details, and see above about ad2c.
-
- 2. Execute
- % xmkmf
- to create the Makefile.
-
- 3. Execute
- % make depend
- to add the dependencies to the Makefile. This is necessary to
- ensure that Xkal.ad.h is created when needed.
- IMPORTANT: Ignore the error message from makedepend if Xkal.ad.h
- is not found; it will be created automatically.
-
- 4. Make the package using
- % make
- or install it directly with
- % make install install.man
-
- HISTORY:
- Unless otherwise indicated, things are listed with the person who
- suggested them. These people did not write code; I get the blame for
- that). Apologies if I didn't credit someone.
-
- Released to alt.sources (version 1.0 beta), 13 Nov 1990.
-
- Patched 16 Nov 1990:
- Bad values in XtSetValues(), lines 169, 172, 175 "day.c"
- - douglis@cs.vu.nl (Fred Douglis)
- - sengillo@isdc00.kodak.com (Alan Sengillo)
-
- Version 1.10 made available for ftp, 27 Feb 1991. The following are
- some of the changes in this version, listed with the person who
- suggested them (these people did not write code; I get the blame for
- that). Apologies if I didn't credit someone.
- From: netmgr@venus.csc.fi (Pekka Kyt|laakso)
- Customize dow and month labels and allow Monday at start of
- week for European users.
- From: Colin Walls <ctw@sun.central-services.umist.ac.uk>
- Allow calendar format and preprocessor. Actually it will
- handle almost any date spec., and provides #include.
- From: several people
- Ultrix defs for dysize() and don't use += if possible.
- From: rackow@antares.mcs.anl.gov (Gene Rackow)
- Different reminder types, like monthly and yearly. In fact,
- the appointment format is considerably more flexible, with
- respect to both syntax and semantics.
- From: weissman%pianoforte.esd.sgi.com@SGI.COM
- Fixed major grossness in selectDay()
- From: mucit@cs.rochester.edu (Bulent Murtezaoglu)
- Two month format and better labelling algorithm for moved
- appoints.
- And from me:
- - System and personal files, with #include functionality
- - Added appointment editor to replace schedule editor
- - Added defaults editor
- - Fully customizable day layout, including start and end times,
- increment, number and label of notes
- - Switch to "criticality levels" for appointment highlighting
- - Popup error messages where appropriate (if wanted)
- - "xkal-system()" action for arbitrary commands
- - Automail scripts
- - Programs to write in xremind and pcal formats
- Version 1.11 - 1 Mar 1991
- gf: Get notesLabel in non-interactive mode
- Version 1.12 - 2 Mar 1991
- gf: Mail tomorrow's reminders in xkal-mail and xkal-automail, rather
- than today's. Duuh...
- Version 1.13 - 13 Mar 1991
- From: rme@olympia.net.com (Richard Emberson)
- - Added notes to README concerning EzMenu changes
- From: jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu (James Darrell McCauley)
- - Added notes to README concerning handling string-convert.c
- problems.
- - Fixed bogus ad hoc handling of am/pm, and added noonStr
- and midnightStr resources
-