Calendar mail

Reminders of events can be displayed during login or mailed automatically by creating a file called calendar in your HOME directory. The calendar program consults this file and displays lines that contain today's or tomorrow's date anywhere in them.

When the optional `-' argument is present

       ex.   calendar -

the calendar program sends its output as mail to all of the users who have the file, calendar, in their HOME directory. Users are only affected when their directories are part of the local file system of the machine from which the calendar command was invoked. So, running the program with this option from a diskless workstation has no effect.

On many systems, calendar is invoked automatically at off peak times by cron so that users have calendar mail waiting for them when they login at the beginning of the day.

If you are receiving calendar mail and wish to stop, simply remove the calendar file from your HOME directory.

Last Update: 1/7/94 JGW