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GCAL(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   GCAL(1)

NAME

       Gcal - a program for calculating and printing calendars.

SYNOPSIS

       gcal [[Option...] [%Date] [@File...]] [Command]

DESCRIPTION

       Gcal is a program similar the standard calendar programs BSD-`cal' and `calendar'.

       Gcal  displays  hybrid  and  proleptic Julian and Gregorian calendar sheets, respectively, for one month, three months or a whole year.	It
       also displays eternal holiday lists for many countries around the globe, and features a very powerful creation of fixed date lists that can
       be  used  for reminding purposes.  Gcal can calculate various astronomical data and times of the Sun and the Moon for at pleasure any loca-
       tion, precisely enough for most civil purposes.	Gcal supports some other calendar systems, for example the Chinese and Japanese  calendar,
       the Hebrew calendar and the civil Islamic calendar, too.

       If Gcal is started without any options or commands, a calendar of the current month is displayed.

       If the calendar of a definite year is wanted, the year must be fully specified,
       e.g.:  gcal 94
       displays a year calendar of the year 94, not of the year 1994.

       If  two arguments are given in the command part, the first argument denotes the month and the second argument denotes the year. In case any
       illegal commands are given running Gcal , the program will use internal defaults.

MORE PROGRAM INFORMATION

       You obtain more program information if you start Gcal as follows:
       gcal -h
       gcal -?
       gcal --help

       respectively,

       gcal -hh
       gcal -??
       gcal --long-help[=ARG]|[=?]
       gcal --usage[=ARG]|[=?]
       A Hypertext file gcal.info containing detailed online information should be available, which you can inspect using your GNU Infobrowser.

COPYRIGHT

Gcal Copyright (c) 1994, 95, 96, 1997, 2000 Thomas Esken

       This software doesn't claim completeness, correctness or usability.  On principle I will not be liable for any damages or losses  (implicit
       or  explicit),  which  result from using or handling my software.  If you use this software, you agree without any exception to this agree-
       ment, which binds you LEGALLY !!

       Gcal is free software and distributed under the terms of the `GNU General Public License'; published by	the  `Free  Software  Foundation';
       version 2 or (at your option) any later version.

       Any suggestions, improvements, extensions, bug reports, donations, proposals for contract work, and so forth are welcome!  If you like this
       tool, I'd appreciate a postcard from you!

       Enjoy it   =8^)

AUTHOR

  ------------------------oOO	   \\_''/	OOo---------------------------
  Thomas Esken		     O	   (/o-o)     O  eMail: esken@gmx.net
  Im Hagenfeld 84		  ((  ^  ))	  Phone: +49 251 232585
  D-48147 Muenster; Germany    \____) ~ (____/	  MotD : 2old2live, 2young2die

SEE ALSO

       tcal(1), txt2gcal(1), gcal2txt(1), cal(1), calendar(1).

								   June 14, 2000							   GCAL(1)

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CAL(1)							    BSD General Commands Manual 						    CAL(1)

NAME

     cal -- displays a calendar

SYNOPSIS

     cal [-smjy13] [[[day] month] year]

DESCRIPTION

     Cal displays a simple calendar.  If arguments are not specified, the current month is displayed.  The options are as follows:

     -1      Display single month output.  (This is the default.)

     -3      Display prev/current/next month output.

     -s      Display Sunday as the first day of the week.

     -m      Display Monday as the first day of the week.

     -j      Display Julian dates (days one-based, numbered from January 1).

     -y      Display a calendar for the current year.

     -V      Display version information and exit.

     A single parameter specifies the year (1 - 9999) to be displayed; note the year must be fully specified: ``cal 89'' will not display a calen-
     dar for 1989.  Two parameters denote the month (1 - 12) and year.	Three parameters denote the day (1-31), month and year, and the day will
     be highlighted if the calendar is displayed on a terminal.  If no parameters are specified, the current month's calendar is displayed.

     A year starts on Jan 1. The first day of the week is determined by the locale.

     The Gregorian Reformation is assumed to have occurred in 1752 on the 3rd of September.  By this time, most countries had recognized the ref-
     ormation (although a few did not recognize it until the early 1900's.)  Ten days following that date were eliminated by the reformation, so
     the calendar for that month is a bit unusual.

HISTORY

     A cal command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.

OTHER VERSIONS

     Several much more elaborate versions of this program exist, with support for colors, holidays, birthdays, reminders and appointments, etc.
     For example, try the cal from http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell/projects.html or GNU gcal.

AVAILABILITY

     The cal command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.

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