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Re: TTY interface to cm(1)?

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From: Mike Ales
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:20
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In article 11627@crd.ge.com, halvers@procyon.crd.ge.com (peter c halverson) writes:
>Has anyone ever heard of a tty-based interface to the "database" used by
>the cm(1) calendar manager?  I'd like to be able to check my appointments
>from a remote login, and running X on my home machine just to support cm(1)
>seems a bit much :-)   Something as simple as a command to show all the
>appointments on a given date would be more than adequate.
>
>Lacking that, does anyone know any details about the interface to the
>rpc.cmsd RPC server which might let me roll my own?  I suppose I could
>always parse the log in /var/spool/calendar, but I'd rather do things
>"right" by going through the cm server.
>
>Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>pete
>
>
>Pete Halverson                                      INET: halverson@crd.ge.com 
>GE Corporate R&D Center                       UUCP: uunet!crd.ge.com!halverson
>Schenectady, NY

On Sun4 OS4.1.2 there are several tty based interfaces.
Do a man on cm_delete, cm_insert, cm_lookup.

If system admin hasn't really installed the OpenWin
man pages then you can look in

$OPENWINHOME/share/man/man1 for them. On our system
$OPENWINHOME is /usr/openwin but yours maybe different.

Regards, Mike Ales
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