REMIND(1)               GENIX Programmer's Manual               REMIND(1)



      NAME
           remind - date book

      SYNOPSIS
           remind

      DESCRIPTION
           Remind is a date oriented reminder service.  It reads the file `rem-
           inder'  in  the  current directory, checks for today's or tomorrow's
           date, and prints lines that match.  A weekend  tomorrow  extends  to
           the following Monday.  Typically, .login or .profile files should be
           set to run remind automatically.

           Each line in `reminder'  consists of a date  specification  followed
           optionally  by  ';'  and  a reminder message.  Most date formats are
           understood.  Months may be specified as numbers or words.  Including
           a  time  in  the date will fail.  Any extraneous words or numbers in
           the date will cause an error.  A weekday may be  specified  with  or
           without  a  date.   The year is checked as well as the month and the
           day.  Either `82' or  `1982'  is  acceptable,  the  default  is  the
           current  year.   Ranges  may be specified as n:m, or word1:word2.  A
           line beginning with '#' may be used for comments.  A sample reminder
           file might be:

                Friday; TGIF.
                Monday 1:7 Sept; Labor Day.
                4 July; Independence Day.
                8/17/1982; Dentist, 10am.

           Note that the second line matches the  first  Monday  in  September,
           Labor Day.  It will print on the previous Friday, Saturday, and Sun-
           day as well as Labor Day Monday.

           A range specified from high to low, i.e. 30:20 will be checked as if
           it wrapped around the end of valid ranges for the field.

           For readability, when remind prints a line the  date  expression  is
           replaced with the matching date.

      FILES
           reminder

      SEE ALSO
           calendar(1)

      DIAGNOSTICS
           If an error occurs in the date, the line is printed, the  point  the
           error occurred is flagged with '^', and an error message is printed.







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