snicoud@atc.boeing.com (Stephen L Nicoud) (04/15/91)
Archive-name: applications/calendar/cmgr-dates/1991-04-13
Archive: atc.boeing.com:/pub/cmgr/dates.tar.Z [130.42.28.80]
Original-posting-by: snicoud@atc.boeing.com (Stephen L Nicoud)
Original-subject: Dates files for Calendar Manager
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)
I have converted the SunView CalenTool's dates files to a format
acceptable to Open Windows Calendar Manager. These files detail
holidays, special occasions and historical and fictional events. I am
making the files available via anonymous ftp. I've appended the
README file to this message which describes how to get the files and
how to install them. Please don't ask me to mail them to you.
Frankly, I don't have the time to honor such requests. Ask a friend
who has ftp access.
Good Luck,
Stephen
README FILE:
The files in this directory contain Date entries for use with Open
Windows Calendar Manager. These files were created by converting the
dates files provided with SunView's Calentool.
To get these files, anonymously ftp to atc.boeing.com [130.42.28.80],
change to the /pub/cmgr directory, and snarf the dates.tar.Z file
(remember to use binary mode). dates.tar.Z is a compressed tar file.
If you don't know how to uncompress and untar a file, you'll have to
learn from someone at your site.
This is a list of the files in the distribution and the description of
their associated events:
celtic
Holidays/events of interest to Celts
computing
Events in the history of computing
events
Historical events (major and minor)
lives
Biographical dates of note
lotr
Special dates for fans of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
nature
Natural events
popcult
Special dates in Western popular culture
usa_holiday
Major US/Canadian holidays (holidays from work)
usa_other
Minor US/Canadian holidays
usa_states
US holidays specific to selected states
world
Holidays from countries other than the US/Canada
Note that in the usa_holiday & usa_other files, the following
holidays/events are not listed as they do not fall on the same
Gregorian date every year:
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Presidents Day
Mother's Day
Memorial Day
Father's Day
Labor Day
Columbus Day observed
Thanksgiving Day (United States)
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME BEGINS (set clocks forward 1 h)
Arbor Day
Victoria Day (Canada)
Armed Force's Day
I'm an American Day
Children's Day
Grandparent's Day
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ENDS (set clocks back 1 h)
Child Health Day
Thanksgiving Day (Canada)
Sadie Hawkin's Day
Lee-Jackson Day (VA)
Robert E. Lee's Birthday (AL & MS)
Seward's Day (AK)
Patriot's Day (ME & MA)
Arbor Day (WY)
Confederate Memorial Day (AL & MS)
Memorial Day (MI)
Jefferson Davis's Birthday (AL & MS)
Admission Day (HI, 1984)
To install these dates in your calendar manager you will need to add
them to the end of your /usr/spool/calendar/callog.user file (where
"user" is your account name). After installing the appointments you
want the Calendar Manager daemon needs to be restarted. I know of two
ways to do this (1) have superuser execute the
"$OPENWINHOME/bin/xview/install_cmgr" command on the host which is
running the daemon or (2) reboot the machine which is running the
daemon. Normally, the machine which is running the daemon is your own
host.
Note, in each file the first entry is given key #1, the second key #2,
and so on. You will need to insure that the keys do not conflict with
any pre-existing key in your callog.user file. You will have to use
whatever technique you can to change the key numbers. It should be
pretty easy to do a keyboard macro in Emacs which would add numbers on
the front of the key number so that each was outside the range of
currently used numbers. NOTE, HOWEVER, I'M NOT GOING TO HELP YOU
FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THIS. YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN. I just do not have
time to help people with it. I'm providing these files because I
think others might have a use for them, but that's all I'm doing.
4/12/91 Stephen Nicoud <snicoud@atc.boeing.com>
-- comp.archives file verification
atc.boeing.com
-rw-r--r-- 1 184 14 55037 Apr 14 02:37 /pub/cmgr/dates.tar.Z
found cmgr-dates ok
atc.boeing.com:/pub/cmgr/dates.tar.Z