plan - an X/Motif day planner ----------------------------- Note for people who don't read long READMEs: before you compile, edit the Makefile and change the LIB and DIR paths if you don't want all files to go into /usr/local/bin. Type "make help" for a list of supported platforms. If you start a precompiled but uninstalled version, be sure to do it in the directory that contains plan, pland, notifier, and plan.help. --- Plan is a schedule planner based on X/Motif. It displays a month calendar similar to xcal, but every day box is large enough to show appointments in small print. By pressing on a day box, the appointments for that day can be listed and edited. Appointments are entered with the following information (everything except the time is optional): - the date, time, and length of the appointment - an optional text message to be printed, - an optional script to be executed, - early-warn and late-warn triggers that precede the alarm time - repetitions: [n-th] weekdays, days-of-the-month, every n days, yearly - optional fast command-line appointment entry - flexible ways to specify holidays and vacations - extensive context help The action being taken when a warn or alarm time is reached is programmable; by default a window pops up. In addition, a program can be executed, or mail can be sent. Other methods of listing appointments (today, this week, next week, or a keyword search for regular expressions) are also available. Plan can be configured to display times in 12-hour or 24-hour formats, mmddyy and ddmmyy date formats, and can show either Monday or Sunday in the leftmost column. Three view modes are supported: one month, one year, and one week. The week view plots appointments as colored and labelled bars in a hour vs. day chart, and allows other users' appointments to be included. You do not need root access to install and run these programs. Edit the Makefile to change the installation directories (default /usr/local/bin), and run "make ". Default is sgi. For a list of supported system names, run "make help". You'll have to copy the nroff manpage plan.[14], or the plain-text manpage plan.[14]cat (don't forget to strip the "cat") to your manpage directories manually, because that _does_ require root privileges. This distributions creates three binaries: plan the schedule program. It displays the calendar and allows entry of appointments. It writes everything to a .dayplan* files in the user's home directory. It does not check for alarms, this is done by the pland daemon. plan informs pland when the ~/.dayplan file changed by sending a hangup signal to pland. plan can be used without the other programs, but no alarms will be triggered. pland the daemon that waits for alarm events, and pops up windows, sends mail, and/or executes a program when an alarm time is reached. It creates a lockfile /tmp/.planUID, with UID being the user's user ID. The lockfile prevents multiple pland's. It also contains pland's process ID, which is read by plan to find out where the hangup signals should be sent. pland should be started in the user's .sgisession or .xsession file. notifier a program that prints a file (or standard input) into a window. Depending on the options, the window is green, yellow, or red. pland uses notifier to display messages; notifier was not integrated into pland to keep the pland executable as small as possible (X/Motif programs tend to be very large). Plan.icon for SGI systems. Copy this file to your ~/.icons directory to get a full-color icon. plan_cal.ps the PostScript skeleton for the print functions, should go into /usr/local/bin (see LIB in the Makefile) plan.help all help texts, should go into /usr/local/bin (see LIB in the Makefile) Mkdoc a contributed perl script that converts plan.help to troff source. Killpland a contributed perl script that can be called from ~/.logout to kill pland on logout. Monochrome a sample resource list for monochrome systems, to be appended to ~/.Xdefaults . plan and notifier print usage messages when an unknown option is used; pland has only one option, -k, that kills the existing daemon first if there is one. In particular, plan -d and notifier -d dump the default X resources; you can do "plan -d >>.Xdefaults" and modify the resources. Make sure the plan.help file is in your search path. Note -- I do not guarantee the accuracy of the .holiday template files in the distribution. Bug reports to thomas@bitrot.in-berlin.de. Don't forget to include the version number as printed by "plan -v". Copyright: plan is Copyrighted by Thomas Driemeyer, 1993, 1994. License to copy, publish, and distribute is granted to everyone provided that three conditions are met: - my name and email address, "Thomas Driemeyer " must remain in the distribution and any documentation that was not part of this distribution. In particular, my name and address must be shown in the About popup. - if you redistribute a modified version, the fact that the version is modified must be stated in all places that my name is shown. - this copyright notice must be included in your distribution. If these conditions are met, you can do whatever you like. The idea is that I would be pissed if someone else claimed he wrote the thing, and I don't want bugs introduced by others attributed to me. Make as much money with it as you can. Drop me a line, I am curious. There are no implied or expressed warranties for plan. I do not claim it is good for anything whatsoever, and if you lose your precious data or your dog dies this is entirely your problem.