[plug] scheduling software

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Mark Tearle wrote:

> > "Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" wrote:
> > > 
> > > Welll there are to I use, "ical" which comes standard with most distros.  Its
> > > VERY lightweight.  It supports both X and console.  It's not too bad.
> > 
> > Lightweight? My version shows 3MB RSS most of the time, even when
> > iconified,
> > so i gave up leaving it running.
> 
> KOrganizer <http://www.redhat.com/~pbrown/korganizer/>
> and 
> GnomeCal <http://www.gnome.org/>
> 
> are two other contenders.   There was also an AskSlashdot thread about
> this several months ago.
> 
> I haven't heard of any console/non-X windows time apps though.
> (maybe I need to write one?)

There's the cal/calender pair of programs that are faily simple to use,
and take up very little memory. There's an article on how to use them in
the current Linux Journal. They can also be used within scripts and can
run from within .bashrc file to show you want appointments you have when
ever you login in or pop up a new Xterm.

Peter

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