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     CALENDAR(1)                                           CALENDAR(1)

     NAME
          calendar - reminder service

     SYNOPSIS
          calendar [ - ]

     DESCRIPTION
          Calendar consults the file `calendar' in the current direc-
          tory and prints out lines that contain today's or tomorrow's
          date anywhere in the line.  Most reasonable month-day dates
          such as `Dec. 7,' `december 7,' `12/7,' etc., are recog-
          nized, but not `7 December' or `7/12'.  On weekends `tomor-
          row' extends through Monday.

          When an argument is present, calendar does its job for every
          user who has a file `calendar' in his login directory and
          sends him any positive results by mail(1). Normally this is
          done daily in the wee hours under control of cron(8).

     FILES
          calendar
          /usr/lib/calendar to figure out today's and tomorrow's dates
          /etc/passwd
          /tmp/cal*
          egrep, sed, mail subprocesses

     SEE ALSO
          at(1), cron(8), mail(1)

     BUGS
          Your calendar must be public information for you to get
          reminder service.
          Calendar's extended idea of `tomorrow' doesn't account for
          holidays.