Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!labrea!rutgers!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!gryphon!crash!rush!bob
From: bob@rush.cts.com (Bob Ames)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Where is my Calendar(AT&T owes me)
Summary: PCAL
Keywords: ... works for me ...
Message-ID: <750@rush.cts.com>
Date: 16 Jul 88 22:35:10 GMT
References: <7152@cup.portal.com> <230@magnus.UUCP> <7305@cup.portal.com> <642@sunspot.UUCP>
Organization: Howard Publications, Inc.
Lines: 45

In article <642@sunspot.UUCP>, oscar@sunspot.UUCP (Oscar Von der Luhe) writes:
> In article <7305@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com writes:
> 
> [ stuff deleted ]
>[>]                  ...., ALL (myself included) have returned their warranty
> >cards and only ONE person (per a phone call) has received the free calender
> >stuff from AT&T.
> 
> So did I, and never heard from AT&T. I didn't even bother to call.

Am I the only person to have actually received a calendar from AT&T?

I have it.  Just call the 'Hotline' and explain your problem (*MANY TIMES*),
and eventually you will reach someone who will actually order it for you.
I recommend calling twice a week.  NO |-)!  You'll get it within a couple
of months if you follow this approach.  We at Howard Publications have
about 150 UNIX PCs and we've received 3 I think.  I got mine within 6 weeks
of constant calling.

Until then, use Oscar's suggestion from /etc/fixes and the preferences entry.

BTW:  The manual for the calendar is, of course, incomplete now that more
features (like remote terminals, to-do lists, etc.) are included in PCAL.

The pcal and pcal.hlp are pulled out of /etc/fixes immediately after pcal
has installed it's (smaller, 3.0 UNIX Version) own.  This is one of
the reasons that just after installing *any* software from User Agent's
Install Software from ... menu the machine takes a million years to
stop cycling - it's checking /etc/fixes for any files that it could replace
with "newer versions" from fixes.  Personal Calendar is the only thing that
I have *ever* seen in /etc/fixes.  I have considered removing the
reference (in /usr/bin/Instcpio.sh?) to searching /etc/fixes against
the just-installed files.  The other reason the machine takes so long is
it's deleting all of the temp files that were created during installation.

Well, AT&T:  Can I redistribute an installable PCAL+IN via public uucp?
Why don't you guys just put it on the STORE!.

Bob Ames      INET: bob@rush.cts.com

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