gsarff@argus.UUCP (gary sarff) (02/18/88)
This message is in response to a few I saw the other day about the calendar program for the AT&T unix pc /3b1, but I don't have those messages on my system anymore, so to whom it may concern and for whatever this might be worth: I bought a 7300 last fall at the AT&T firesale price and also dutifully sent in my warranty cards and also have not received the so-called free calendar program mentioned in the manual. But a few weeks after I had gotten my pc, browsing around logged in as root I discovered an "unreadable" directory on my disk. /etc/fixes, using ls showed all -'s in the permissions no one had permission to do anything to it, and it was owned by root. Inside I found,... a calendar program also owned by root. I made it publically executable and put a link to it in /usr/bin and in my own Filecabinet director for the user agent, fired up my user agent, and clicked on pcal (the name of the program) and voila, a neat iconic, mouse based calendar came up. I don't know how this is different than the free one we were promised or if this is a typical experience, if anyone else has it, but it seems to be totally functional, and a pretty nice tool, you can click to get a whole month at a glance, with previous and next months too, or a week or a day with slots for each hour all of which can have arbitrary notes attached to any day, hour, etc, with also settable alarms. It would be interesting to hear if anyone else has this floating around on their disks or if this is common knowledge that I missed out on. 8-)