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From: exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: So, anyone got an imitation Multics 'memo' command?
Message-ID: <1991May14.161704.27609@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
Date: 14 May 91 16:17:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: gdr.1991May14.161704.27609
Reply-To: P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
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Well, one thing this 'what happened to Multics' discussion has brought
out is that there are a lot of ex-Multicians hiding out there in the
Unix woodwork.

So, has anyone out there got a PD or personally-implemented substitute
for the Multics 'memo' command, running on Unix, which they'd be
willing to share?

Misc notes:  'calendar' is 'close, but no cigar'; not nearly powerful
enough.  Though it might be possible to script up a memo-substitute
from it and some assorted awk-wardness.  (If you can't do something
with a line of awk, it's probably not computable anyway. :-)

In the interests of coexistence with Unix, I could live without alarm
and call memos if required (though they would be nice).  I want -date,
-expires, -retain/noretain, -repeat (and -repeat_when_processed), and
-invisible; and -print/-list of -all or mature only.  (All as
functionalities.  It's a matter of some indifference whether adding,
deleting, and modifying memos is done via the hypothetical
command/subsystem, or by vi-ing the memo-file analog.)  Oh, and I
want to be able to include dates in the memo text which will not
activate the memo.  E.g. a memo to be printed from May 21 to May 24,
repeat each year, text saying 'Annie's birthday May 25'.

-- 
Paul Smee, Computing Service, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UD, UK
 P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk - ..!uunet!ukc!bsmail!p.smee - Tel +44 272 303132