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- From: bryant@ced.utah.edu (Bryant Eastham,MEB 3116,581-5353)
- Subject: calendar manager
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.224329.22377@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Reply-To: bryant@ced.utah.edu
- Organization: Center for Engineering Design
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 22:43:29 GMT
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- Hello! My name is Bryant Eastham and I work at the
- University of Utah. I have been trying to interface
- with Sun's calendar manager program and not having
- much success. I am very surprised at the limited
- access that they give (cm_insert, cm_delete and
- cm_lookup). For this reason I set out to find a
- better interface. What I have may be of interest
- to people on the net.
-
- I have decoded the communications between calendar
- manager and the daemon and have the XDR interface,
- as well as a (limited) set of routines for talking
- straight to the daemon. I have tested some of these
- already and am working on more. They work.
-
- My reason for posting is two-fold:
-
- 1) I wonder if others are interested in what
- I have done. I am willing to freely distribute
- the basic information - I obtained it using
- tools available to anyone and without any
- help from Sun. As far as I know there should
- be no problem distributing it.
-
- 2) I'm interested in command line options (and
- programs) that people think would be usefull
- for interfacing with calendar manager. For
- example, my cm_lookup program would have
- arguments like:
-
- -k -> Search for key match.
- -r date date -> Date range search
- -w string -> Search for string in description
- -a -> find only appointments
- -A -> find only uncompleted appointments
-
- etc., etc., etc.
-
- I am interested in what options people would
- think usefull.
-
- Please respond via E-mail. I hope to have enough
- program support to allow such things as:
-
- A program that moves appointments forward
- if not completed and deletes them if
- they are completed.
-
- A MUCH more generic search program.
-
- An insert program that allows you to insert
- repeating events and change the other
- options.
-
- Etc., etc., etc.
-
- Thanks for your input,
-
- Bryant Eastham
- System Administrator/Programmer
- Center for Engineering Design
- University of Utah
- Salt Lake City, UT 84102
- (801) 581-6499
- bryant@ced.utah.edu
-
-