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From: rich@Rice.EDU (Richard Murphey)
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Subject: Re: alarm clock client?
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Date: 24 Jun 89 02:44:46 GMT
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In article <3517@ncar.ucar.edu>, morreale@bierstadt.ucar.edu (Peter Morreale) writes:
> 
> Does anyone know of a "alarm" clock client available for X?  I would 
> find such a tool very useful.   Something which a user could set and 
> have it pop up a window with a user defined message.
> 
>     How about it X-Gods?  (Xods ??) :-)
...
> 
> Peter W. Morreale                   
> Nat'l Center for Atmos. Research, Scientific Computing Division       
> morreale@ncar.ucar.edu  (303) 497-1293
> ~

The `remind' application which is part of the InterViews distribution does
exactly this.  Here's the top of the man page:


NAME
     remind - a simple reminder service

SYNOPSIS
     remind [ time ] [ message ]

DESCRIPTION
     Remind implements  a  simple  reminder  service  similar  to
     calendar(1),  but  uses  alert(1)  instead of mail(1).  Rem-
     inders can be specified from the command line, or remind can
     extract  information  from  a file in the user's home direc-
     tory.  In the latter case, remind first looks for  the  file
     reminders, then for the file calendar.


You can get the interviews distribution free from interviews.stanford.edu
using anonymous ftp.

Your friendly neighborhood Xod :-)
Rich Murphey
Electrical Engineering
Rice University
rich@rice.edu