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From: cflatter@ZIA.AOC.NRAO.EDU (Chris Flatters)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Caltool in X?
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Date: 26 Aug 90 23:23:00 GMT
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Greg Hennessy writes :

	Has anyone ported Calentool to X-windows? Or does a calendar
	management tool exist for X-windows that mails a person his daily
	appointments? XCal is nice, but doesn't do all I want. I would prefer
	an X only version, since I would rather not set up XView.

The closest equivalent I can think of is xcalendar.  This is available from
expo.lcs.mit.edu by remote ftp (and might be in the X11R4 release contrib
directory).  It uses Athena widgets.  Unfortunately, I don't think that it
will cut the mustard for Greg since it appears to be incapable of sounding
alarms or mailing reminders when appointments are due.  None of the Sun
user's we have here thought it an adequate substitute for calentool.

Sun's OpenWindows deskset (I know Greg has a Sun) does contain a calendar
manager that does have the capabilities he needs, although it misses out
on the astronomical information that calentool used to give.  Of course,
if Greg buys OpenWindows from Sun, Sun will save him the effort of setting
up XView since it comes precompiled.  The calendar manager, cm, is not
included in the XView 2.0 distribution.

I don't really understand why Greg is down on XView.  It is one of the best
free products I have come across and compilation on a Sun should be a
piece of cake.

			Chris Flatters
			cflatter@nrao.edu


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