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