ubi@ginger.sri.com (Ron Ueberschaer x4399) (02/27/90)
A while back I asked if anyone has ported the PD program called
"month" to the Mac. I got no response. To give an idea of what the
program does, I'll paraphrase/plagiarize the UN*X man page which
came with the source distribution:
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month - a visual calendar and time/event organizer
. . .
Overview
Month displays a calendar of the current month of the
current year, with the current day highlighted. It then
allows the user to browse to any month/day/year, and to
schedule and recall events for a day or for some regu-
lar repeating series of days.
Screen Areas
There are four distinct areas of the screen: the days
area where the days of the month are listed in calendar
format, the months area where the months of the year
are listed, the years area where a sequence of years
are listed, and the schedule area.
. . .
Scanning events
The S key will cause a sequential list of events for
the current day to be displayed in the schedule area.
The events for any given day may be scanned, deleted,
or modified. After displaying each one, the prompt "
[n,p,d,e,q] " is put up and will respond to these char-
acter commands:
'n': go to next event
'p': go to previous event
'd': delete this event
'e': edit this event as during a posting described
below
'q': quit the scan and return to calendar
<ESC>: same as 'q'
. . .
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I know the program has been ported to Sun workstations under the
name "monthtool". It seems that a similarly useful program would
have made it to the Mac environment by now. If not, I may consider
doing the port myself (curses ==> Toolbox conversion required).
*Please* let me know if I'd be wasting my time! I'd hate to do
all this work only to find that it's already been done better...
--Ron Ueberschaer
SRI International
ubi@unix.sri.com
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