there's a program called remind listed in the debian package-ytrr which I believe does roughly the same as your script, but warns by putting messages on the consoel through the write-program. On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Mike Gorse wrote: > A few months ago I wrote myself a little script that will read a text file > that I write with dates and messages and send me an email if the date and > time has passed, like so: > > 20040801 10 > WCC picnic > > I set it up so that cron will run it every hour. I put it up at > http://mgorse.home.dhs.org/software/reminder.pl. I haven't documented it, > though, and it is a bit crude and has some bugs, but it might do what you > need. I don't know of anything that would work better, anyway; maybe > others do (it pretty much works for me as long as I can get on the 'net). > > -- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org -- > A better world is possible! http://www.kucinich.us > > On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, T Masterson wrote: > > > Can anyone point me to a dayplanner that works at > > the console? > > > > Thanks > > Tom > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: ademarte@xxxxxxxx student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn: do ask ;) ----------- chairman Stichting Studiereizen STORM www: http://www.stistusto.nl vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list