adams@swbatl..sbc.com (Tom Adams - 235-7459) (11/07/90)
About a week ago I posted a request for calendar programs to be used to schedule resources ( demo rooms, people etc). The program had to be usable from an ascii terminal, and could be commercial or not. Two people responded to my request and I have two PD programs that together almost do what I want. I'd still buy the ideal application if I found it quickly, but will probally hack out what I need. If someone knows of a later version of vcal (mentioned below) I'd appreciate hearing about it. Robert Kelley <rjk@sequent.com> wrote: A commercial program that does what you want, but uses X, is Synchronize, from Crosswinds Technology. [...] There's a program called csos which is an appointment scheduler. and Joshua Goldman josh@osf.org wrote: You may want to check Alis from Applix [...] On the other hand, this may be overkill, it's a complete office automation system. I found the vcal program, which I vaguely recalled from long ago, in the net.sources directory on uunet. This version of vcal dates from early 87 and is: "a set of calendar and appointment utility programs to replace the traditional paper calendar. Vcal allows the user to view a calendar, enter dates and times of activities [...] Multiple data files may be used ..." Vcal was written by Mike Essex (decvax!sytek!zehntel!me) Csos, is an "appointment scheduler that was written by Tony Smith for the University of Illinois Computing Services Office Consulting Office. Some features were added by Rohit Gupta. Some of the original code (Tony can't remember exactly how much :-) is from a called 'month' by Tom Stoehn." csos is availiable via anonymous ftp from ux1.cso.uiuc.edu in the doc/csos directory. It is a compressed tar file. Many thanks to Tony Smith (smithw@uiuc.edu) for helping me find this. Csos, incidentally, seems like a *great* idea for scheduling student consultants. -- uunet!swbatl!adams or adams@swbatl.sbc.com Tom Adams: 314-235-7459: Southwestern Bell Telephone Advanced Technology Lab BOOKS WANTED: pre-1930 radio, electrical & scientific topics