Xcal is a calendar program. It generally sits on your screen displaying todays date - the format of this can be tailored to your taste. Hitting the left button in the date window gives you a `strip' showing the current month with one line per day. Daily details can be stored in files (like xcalendar - from where I stole some code). The daily details will be displayed in the strip - so you can see what you have to do. The X11 multi-line widget makes this rather nice. Daily details can be edited by poking at the appropriate day and getting an edit window. Daily details can contain times and can be used to trigger screen alarms. Each strip has `next' and `previous' button, so you can do the common actions quickly - alternatively you can hit the middle button in the date window to get a dialogue box which you can use to enter the date of the month which you want to display. A top level button on the date strip gives you access to a memo pad where you can store things that you should be doing. This panel also shows todays information so a single button click can be used to see todays appointments. I have also stolen pscal from the net and modified it to work with the program. So you can generate pretty printed calendars whenever you like - assuming that you have a PostScript printer.There are also some other support programs, xcal_cal, xcalpr and xcalev. See README.contents for more details on these. See README.install for some installation hints and pitfalls. This is release 4.1 The history is: Release 1.1 posted to comp.sources.x + two patches Release 2.1 circulated privately Release 3.1 posted unintentionally to comp.sources.x Release 3.2 posted to comp.sources.x Release 3.3 posted to comp.sources.x in 1990 Caveats Yes this IS another - `I need something real to find out about X exercise'. So, it demonstrates all those faults. Peter Collinson Hillside Systems 61 Hillside Avenue Canterbury Kent, CT2 8HA Phone: +44 227 761824 Fax: +44 227 762554 Email: pc@hillside.co.uk 7/November/1993 Fixes/enhancements welcomed.... This is free... however, if you are going to make some profit from this, then perhaps you should consider passing something back to me since I am freelance and mostly don't get paid everyday.
