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- A BRIEF HISTORY OF REMIND:
-
- Version 1.0 - never publicly released.
-
- Version 2.0 - first public release. Included advanced date specifications,
- character substitution, and the RUN keyword.
-
- Version 2.1 - Added the "repeat" token for repeating reminders with a period
- other than 7 days. Also fixed some bugs from version 2.0
-
- Version 2.2 - Added the AT keyword, the timed reminders daemon, and the
- calendar facility.
-
- Version 2.2 - Patch 3 - Added the MSG or RUN tokens in an OMIT command; also
- allowed RUN-type reminders to be explicitly included in the calendar by
- using the %" escape sequence.
-
- Version 2.2 - Patch 5 - Added the BEFORE, AFTER and SKIP tokens to make the
- handling of holidays more sensible. Also corrected a few more bugs.
-
- Version 2.3 - Added the UNTIL keyword for forcing reminders to expire.
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- Added the "++" form of 'back' and the "--" form of 'delta' for
- ignoring OMIT information.
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- Added the CLEAR-OMIT-CONTEXT, PUSH-OMIT-CONTEXT and POP-OMIT-CONTEXT
- keywords for isolating personal or peculiar reminders from the global
- OMIT context.
-
- Speeded up the parsing of tokens.
-
- Changed the source to recognize and exploit ANSI-C compilers which
- accept function prototypes.
-
- Added the "-n" option to output the next occurrence of each reminder
- in SimpleCalendar format
-
- Modified the calendar and SimpleCalendar formats so that the % escape
- substitutions ARE performed.
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-