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email-reminder-editor

EMAIL-REMINDER-EDITOR(1)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  EMAIL-REMINDER-EDITOR(1)

NAME

       Email-Reminder-Editor - edit special occasion reminders

SYNOPSIS

       Simple editor for modifying special occasion email reminders.

DESCRIPTION

       Email-reminder allows users to define events that they want to be reminded of by email.	Possible events include birthdays, anniversaries
       and yearly events.  Reminders can be sent on the day of the event and a few days beforehand.

       This is a simple editor that allows users to add/modify their reminders.  It saves changes automatically when the program is closed.

OPTIONS

       --help
	     Displays basic usage message.

       --simulate
	     Does not actually save any changes.

       --verbose
	     Prints out information about what the program is doing.

       --version
	     Displays the version number.

FILES

       ~/.email-reminders

AUTHOR

       Francois Marier <francois@email-reminder.org.nz>

SEE ALSO

       collect-reminders, send-reminders

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2004-2010 by Francois Marier

       Email-Reminder is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
       the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       Email-Reminder is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Email-Reminder; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
       Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-05-28						  EMAIL-REMINDER-EDITOR(1)

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