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NAME
       calendar - reminder service

SYNOPSIS
       calendar [ - ]

DESCRIPTION
       calendar consults the file calendar in the current directory and
       prints out lines that contain today's or tomorrow's date anywhere in
       the line.  Most reasonable month-day dates such as Aug. 24, august
       24, 8/24, etc., are recognized, but not 24 August or 24/8.  On
       weekends ``tomorrow'' extends through Monday.  calendar can be
       invoked regularly by using the crontab(1) or at(1) commands.

       When an argument is present, calendar does its job for every user who
       has a file calendar in his or her login directory and sends them any
       positive results by mail(1).  Normally this is done daily by
       facilities in the UNIX operating system (see cron(1M)).

       If the environment variable DATEMSK is set, calendar will use its
       value as the full path name of a template file containing format
       strings.  The strings consist of field descriptors and text
       characters and are used to provide a richer set of allowable date
       formats in different languages by appropriate settings of the
       environment variable LANG or LCTIME (see environ(5)).  (See date(1)
       for the allowable list of field descriptors.)

EXAMPLES
       The following example shows the possible contents of a template:

              %B %eth of the year %Y

       %B represents the full month name, %e the day of month and %Y the
       year (4 digits).

       If DATEMSK is set to this template, the following calendar file
       content would be valid:

              March 7th of the year 1989 < Reminder>

FILES
       /usr/lib/calprog    program used to figure out today's and tomorrow's
                           dates
       /etc/passwd
       /tmp/cal*

SEE ALSO
       at(1), date(1), crontab(1), mail(1).
       cron(1M), environ(5).

NOTES
       Appropriate lines beginning with white space will not be printed.
       Your calendar must be public information for you to get reminder
       service.



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       calendar's extended idea of ``tomorrow'' does not account for
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