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Remembering your appointments

You can use the calendar reminder service to send yourself mail reminders about upcoming appointments. The calendar program looks for a file called calendar in your home directory and then mails you the lines containing today's or tomorrow's date.

To use calendar, create a file called calendar in your home directory. Put each appointment on a single line containing the date of the appointment in US (month-day) format. For example:

   $ cd
   $ cat > calendar
   7/4 Dave and Peter start work
   7/5 UNIX Beta Committee meeting, 10 am
   7/7 Meet Vip at the airport
   <Ctrl>D
Then, to guarantee that the calendar program reads your calendar file each time you log in, add the following line to the end of your .profile (C shell users: add this line to your .login):
   /usr/bin/calendar
For more information on customizing your .profile or .login see ``Your environment'' and ``Sample shell startup files''.
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