On 24.03.15 08:04, zlinw@mcmedia.com.au wrote:
Many thanks to those who replied with all the helpfull sugestions, particularly Erik Christiansen "calendar" being the program I was thinking about. I knew a program like that existed unfortunately it is hidden in the bsdmainutils package and interestingly a google search did not bring it up.
On Debian 7.8.0 it's there without overt action on my part, so bsdmainutils is either a default install, or was pulled in by some of all the other stuff I have to download after every distro change. (It's always been there on SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, Redhat, Ubuntu, and Debian, when I've needed it.)
Linux since kernel 0.96d (aprox mid 1992) and at the time Linus never thought it would get beyond Intel 386 and higher cpu's.
Erik (About 7 years behind that: Linux Counter: 216862) -- Taking [Mariupol] would give Mr Putin the ability to push further south and create a land corridor to Crimea, ... Mariupol's massive factories account for two-thirds of the region's steel production. ... along with the city's port they would provide the breakaway regions with the economic muscle they need to sustain their independence. - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-24/mariupol-defence-of-a-divided-city-in-...