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XCALEV(1)						      General Commands Manual							 XCALEV(1)

NAME
xcalev - load xcal calendar files with regular dates SYNTAX
xcalev [ -r ][ -x ][ -f file ][ -d dir ][ year ] DESCRIPTION
Xcalev is used to preload the calendar files for the xcal program with regular events in your life. It reads lines from a file (usually called regular stored in your Calendar directory. Each line in the file contains three fields separated by spaces or tabs, these are: a month name, a day in the month and some text. For example: December 25 Christmas Dec 31 New Year's Eve The order of the month and the day are optional, the program deduces the day by looking whether the string contains an initial numeric character or not. The year defaults to the current year unless the program is given a year number as an argument. This year cannot be abbreviated to two digits because xcal deals with years from year zero. There's a rough validity check on this. The string from the data line is inserted in the appropriate file and will appear in your xcal date strip. Nothing will happen if the string already exists in the file for that day. This means that it's safe to run xcalev at any time, only the strings that have altered in the regular file will be updated. To help with entering the same event for a number of days in one month, you can give a day range with a hyphen Jan 16-21 Usenix SF If you supply the -r option, xcalev will delete all the matching strings that it finds in the appropriate daily file. So, if you want to make radical changes to the regular file, you should run xcalev with the -r option to remove all the current entries from one year, edit the regular file and run xcalev to reload things. OPTIONS
The -r option makes xcalev delete rather than append entries. The -x option makes xcalev operate with Calendar files that are compatible with the xcalendar program. The -f switch is followed by a filename gives an alternative name for the regular file. If the filename does not start with a slash or a dot, then the name of your Calendar directory will be prepended to it. The -d switch is followed by a directory name and specifies an alterative location for your Calendar directory. Your home directory is prepended if the name doesn't start with a slash or a dot. FILES
$HOME/Calendar/* xc<dd><Mon><Year> A data file is day, Month in three letter format and the year. xy<Year> A year directory. xw<Day> A data file for the weekly code, one per day. SEE ALSO
xcal(1), xcalpr(1), xcal_cal(1) AUTHOR
Copyright 1993 by Peter Collinson, Hillside Systems All rights reserved. X Version 11 R5 October 1993 XCALEV(1)

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PSCAL(1)						      General Commands Manual							  PSCAL(1)

NAME
pscal - generates postscript showing your calendar for given year and month SYNOPSIS
: pscal [ -Pprinter ] [ -R ] [ -r ] [ -t ] [ -d directory ] [ other printer flags ] [ month [ year ] ] DESCRIPTION
: Pscal generates the Postscript showing a calendar for the specified month and year. The year, if omitted, defaults to the current year. If both month and year are omitted, the current month is printed. Year can be between 1753 and 9999. The month is a number between 1 and 12. I can also be a three letter month abbreviation. The calendar can be loaded with information from the user. The information either comes in an `Event' file or can be derived from files under the user's Calendar directory should this exist. The search for this data is as follows, if any of these succeeds the data for the calendar is taken from that source. 1) The shell variable EFILE may be set to the name of an Event file. 2) An event file called `Event' may exist in the current directory. 3) The file $HOME/.holiday may exist and contain a list of events. 4) The directory $HOME/Calendar (or a different directory specified with the -d option) may exist containing XCal files. An event file should consist of lines of the form month:day:message string Messages should be 20 characters or less, with no more than 6 messages per day. No spaces should appear from the beginning of a line until after the second colon. Month and day should be numbers in the obvious ranges. OPTIONS
-Pprinter The printer may be specified with the usual -Pprinter syntax. -r The calendar page is printed in ``landscape'' orientation (the default). -R The calendar page is printed in ``portrait'' orientation; this yields a slightly smaller image and may be more suitable for embedding into other documents. -d directory Use the given directory instead of $HOME/Calendar. -t Causes the PostScript to be sent to the standard output, rather than to the printer. This is useful if you wish to save the out- put in a file, or if you want to use options with the lpr(1) command. -F font Sets the font family for the title text (the month and year). -f font Sets the font family for the day-of-month numbers. Other arguments starting with `-' are passed through to lpr(1). Any argument whose first character is '-' is passed on to lpr. The shell variables BANNER, LFOOT, CFOOT, and RFOOT become a top centered banner, and left, centered, or right justified footers respectively. As in: BANNER="Schedule 1" CFOOT=Preliminary pscal 4 90 AUTHOR
Patrick Wood Copyright (C) 1987 by Pipeline Associates, Inc. Permission is granted to modify and distribute this free of charge. HISTORY
Original From: patwood@unirot.UUCP (Patrick Wood) Shell stuff added 3/9/87 by King Ables Made pretty by tjt 1988 Holiday and printer flag passing hacks added Dec 1988 by smann@june.cs.washington.edu Used the better looking version with 5 rows of days rather than 6 hacked together with holiday and banner/footnotes added by Joe (No Rela- tion) Wood, 12/89, jlw@lzga.ATT.COM BUGS
`Pscal' doesn't work for months before 1753 (weird stuff happened in September, 1752). A better format for the dates of holidays would be nice. An escape to allow holiday messages to be raw PostScript would also be nice. The holiday messages should be handled more intelligently (ie, the messages should be clipped to the day). 8/January/1990 PSCAL(1)
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