PALM-DATEBOOK-REMINDERS(1)

👑 PALM-DATEBOOK-REMINDERS ✨

okay bestie, this is a page from the chiark utilities manual set, and it's literally called palm-datebook-reminders 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

palm-datebook-reminders — generate simple report from Palm Datebook DB 🗓️✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

PALM-DATEBOOK-REMINDERS [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So basically, palm-datebook-reminders reads a Palm Datebook database and prints out a list of events happening in the near future, in a format that's, like, actually reasonably easy to read 👀 no cap.

Imminent events — meaning the ones in approximately the next 48 hours by default — get listed with their complete item text. Full send, every word, nothing hidden 🫶

Forthcoming</purpose> events — approximately the next 4 weeks by default — get listed in summary form, so it's the vibe check version, not the whole essay 💖

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• imminent/forthcoming, -timminent/forthcoming — specifies that imminent and forthcoming events are ones within the next immiment and forthcoming seconds, respectively ⏰ (yes it's seconds, bestie, do the math)
• filename, -ffilename — reads the file filename instead of ./DatebookDB.pdb 📂. But heads up: if you use the bare form (no -f), then filename must start with a . or a / (dot or slash), okay? don't forget or it will simply not work 🙈

💀 BUGS 💀

ngl, there are some things going on here 😭

• The program is not configurable enough. periodt.
• The option parsing is very grotty. like, it's giving unwell.
• Proper character set conversion is not performed. so watch out for the encoding drama.

🍓 FILES 🍓

• DatebookDB.pdb — the default input file 🌈

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

PALM-DATEBOOK-REMINDERS and this manpage were written by Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> 💜 They are Copyright 2003 Ian Jackson.

palm-datebook-reminders and this manpage are free software ✨ you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation — either version 2, or (at your option) any later version 🫶

This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. (yes, that's the dramatic one, take it seriously 🔥)

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, consult the Free Software Foundation's website at www.fsf.org, or the GNU Project website at www.gnu.org 🌐

Palm Datebook is a piece of proprietary software supplied with Palm organisers. Palm and Datebook are probably trademarks 👑

Greenend, 12th January 2002 — that's the source, the version and the date all rolled up into one little sign-off, and honestly? iconic 💅💖 slay, go read your datebook 🦋