CM_DELETE(1) — USER COMMANDS

NAME

cm_delete − delete appointments from Calendar Manager database

SYNOPSIS

cm_delete [ -c calendar ] [ -d date ] [ -v view ]

DESCRIPTION

The cm_delete utility is a tty interface to Calendar Manager (cm). It can be used to delete appointments from the cm database via the RPC daemon rpc.cmsd. Appointments are deleted one at a time. Each of the components of an appointment is specified using one of the command line flags followed by the desired value. The current list of appointments for the specified date (see date, view options) is displayed, numbered sequentially starting with 1. User is prompted for the number to delete. Once an appointment is deleted, the list of remaining appointments is redisplayed. At this point the user may specify another number, or just <return> to quit.

OPTIONS

−c calendar
The name of the target calendar. Calendar names take the form "user@host", where the user is a user’s login name and the host is the host machine name. An example is "felix@cat". If no target calendar is specified, calendar defaults to the current user at the current host machine.

−d date The deleteion date for the appointment. The date is specifed using the form "mm/dd/yy", although certain other references such as "today", "Tuesday", "tomorrow", etc. are correctly calculated. If no date is specified, date defaults to today’s date.

−v view View span. This controls the span of time to display. The user may specify "day", "week", or "month". The "day" view displays all appointments for the given date (see -d option above). The "week" view displays the full week which contains the given date, starting with Sunday. The "month" view displays the entire month which contains the given date, starting with the first of the month. The default view is "day".

USAGE

The various components of an appointment are specified using command line flags followed by the desired value. Values may have imbedded spaces, punctuation, etc., although quotes may be needed around strings which contain certain characters to protect them from interpretation by the local shell (e.g. /bin/csh). An argument is taken to begin at the first space after a flag and to continue until the first "-" after a space.

EXAMPLE

The simplest form of cm_delete has no arguments:

example% cm_delete
Appointments for Tuesday September 25, 1990:
        1) Appointment
        2) 10:30 Morning Tea
        3) 2:00 Staff meeting
        4) 4:30 Phone home
Item to delete (number)? 2
Appointments for Tuesday September 25, 1990:
        1) Appointment
        2) 2:00 Staff meeting
        3) 4:30 Phone home
Item to delete (number)?
  example%

To delete at a specific date:

example% cm_delete -d 09/26/90
Appointments for Wednesday September 26, 1990:
        1) 11:00 Appointment
        2) 11:30 Group Lunch
        3) 4:00 Tech Interview
Item to delete (number)? 1
Appointments for Wednesday September 26, 1990:
        1) 11:30 Group Lunch
        2) 4:00 Tech Interview
Item to delete (number)?
  example%

To delete from a specific target calendar:

example% cm_delete -c felix@cat
Appointments for Tuesday September 25, 1990:
        1) Appointment
        2) 10:15 Coffee
        3) 11:15 Doughnuts
        4) 2:00 Coffee
        5) 3:30 Snack
        6) 4:30 Coffee
Item to delete (number)? 5
Appointments for Tuesday September 25, 1990:
        1) Appointment
        2) 10:15 Coffee
        3) 11:15 Doughnuts
        4) 2:00 Coffee
        5) 4:30 Coffee
Item to delete (number)?
  example%

To delete multiple appointments:

example% cm_delete
Appointments for Tuesday September 25, 1990:
        1) Appointment
        2) 10:15 Coffee
        3) 11:15 Doughnuts
        4) 2:00 Coffee
        5) 3:30 Snack
        6) 4:30 Coffee
Item to delete (number)? 5
Appointments for Tuesday September 25, 1990:
        1) Appointment
        2) 10:15 Coffee
        3) 11:15 Doughnuts
        4) 2:00 Coffee
        5) 4:30 Coffee
Item to delete (number)? 3
Appointments for Tuesday September 25, 1990:
        1) Appointment
        2) 10:15 Coffee
        3) 2:00 Coffee
        4) 4:30 Coffee
Item to delete (number)?
  example%

FILES

/usr/spool/calendar/callog.username

/usr/etc/rpc.cmsd or $OPENWINHOME/rpc.cmsd

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