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NAME

       ~/.dayplan - database file of plan(1)

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       The ~/.dayplan file is read and written by the plan and pland programs.
       It can be edited manually, but it  has  not  been  designed  for  this.
       Generally,  the format is annoyingly unmnemonic, and there is virtually
       no error checking. Use at your own risk. The only reason I didn’t  make
       this a binary file is that I dislike binary config files as a matter of
       principle.

       The type of every line depends on the first character of the line.  The
       second  character  is  always  a  single  TAB  character. All following
       characters are arguments. Comments and blank lines (which are  ignored)
       can  appear  anywhere.  "Header  types" are all at the beginning of the
       file before the first "entry type".

       TYPES THAT CAN APPEAR ANYWHERE:

       #      Comment line. The rest of the line is ignored.

       HEADER TYPES:

       o      Options.  The  argument  consists   of   14   consecutive   flag
              characters,  and  five numerical arguments.  In order, the flags
              are:

              s      sunday first

              a      12-hour (am/pm) mode

              m      US date format mm/dd/yy

              d      auto-delete past options

              j      show julian dates

              w      show week numbers

              n      show the next three notes, rather than the first three

              -      always a minus sign, not used (used to be  warning  popup
                     mode)

              w      show advance warnings graphically in week view

              u      show file names next to note strings in week view

              b      show  appointments without time as full-width bar in week
                     views

              -      if "w", the first week of the year is the one  with  full
                     seven  days;  if  "t",  the first Thursday controls which
                     week is the first; otherwise, any partial week is first

              c      use  group  color  of  other  file  appointments  as  the
                     background  color  for  the text of these appointments in
                     the day boxes in the month view

              o      turn the own-only flag in appointment entry menus  on  by
                     default,   and  only  show  appointments  from  the  main
                     ~/.dayplan file.

              After the flags, there is a sequence of integers:

              -      default early warning time in seconds

              -      default late warning time in seconds

              -      expiration time of notifier windows in seconds;  0  means
                     notifiers never expire

              -      beginning hour of week views, default is 8 (8:00 o’clock)

              -      ending hour of week views, default is 20 (20:00 o’clock)

              -      the number of days  displayed  in  a  week  view,  1..28,
                     default is 7

       O      More  options.  The  argument  consists  of  24 consecutive flag
              characters, most of which are unused  and  reserved  for  future
              use.  ’-’  means  an  option  is  off, everything else means the
              option is on. In order, the flags are:

              s      use the main window for all views

              a      resize windows if the contents change

       t      Time adjustment parameters  as  defined  with  the  Adjust  Time
              popup.  The five numeric parameters are the offset to the system
              clock in seconds, the timezone offset in seconds, the  DST  flag
              (0=always  on,  1=always off, 2=automatic), and the Julian begin
              and end dates for automatic DST.

       e      Early warning flags,

       l      Late warning flags, and

       a      alarm flags:
              These three have the same format. The first three argument chars
              are  flags,  as  specified in the Alarm Options popup. ’-’ means
              the flag is off, everything else means the flag is on. In order,
              the flags are:

              w      show a color-coded window when the warning/alarm triggers

              m      send mail when the warning/alarm triggers

              x      execute a command when the warning/alarm triggers

              The flags are followed by a single blank. The rest of  the  line
              is  the  command  to execute when the warning/alarm triggers and
              the ’x’ flag is on.

       y      Year overview options. There are 10 consecutive flag  characters
              and  three  numerical  arguments.   Only  one  flag is currently
              defined:

              s      show single-day appointments too (those  with  a  repeat-
                     every count of 1)

              -      nine unused flags that must be present, all ’-’

              After the flags, there is a sequence of integers:

              -      the  number  of  months  (zoom  factor)  that  fills  one
                     screenful

              -      The display mode is 0 for the default files as defined in
                     the   file  list  menu,  1  for  all  files,  2  for  own
                     appointments only, and 2 for  the  file  defined  by  the
                     following number.

              -      the  number  of the file whose appointments are displayed
                     if the previous number is 3.

       P      The PostScript printing options. Ten flag  characters,  followed
              by a blank and the print mode:

              a      omit all appointments from the printout

              p      omit all private appointments from the printout

              -      eight unused flags that must be present, all ’-’

              -      the  mode: 0 for month, 1 for year, 2 for landscape week,
                     and 3 for portrait week

       p      The print spooling string. When printing a PostScript  calendar,
              the PostScript code is sent to stdin of this command.

       m      The  mailer  program, as specified in the Alarm Options menu. Up
              to one "%s" is allowed, it is  replaced  by  the  (quoted)  note
              string.  "%s" is typically used for a subject.

       U      This code is obsolete since version 1.5.

       u      One  file  in the file list. There are five arguments (the order
              is strange because the  month  flag  has  been  added  later  in
              version 1.4):

              -      the file (login) name

              -      the file path

              -      0  if  the  file is shown in week views, 1 if the file is
                     suspended

              -      the color used in the week view, a number  in  the  range
                     0..7

              -      0  if  the file is shown in month views, 1 if the file is
                     suspended

              -      0 if appointments from this file are silent,  1  if  they
                     can trigger their alarms

       ENTRY TYPES:

       [0-9]  Begins  an  entry.  This  is the only mandatory line, all others
              that follow are optional. All following lines that do not  begin
              with a numeric digit are extra information for the entry. Unlike
              all other types, there is no TAB character in the second column,
              the first character is the first digit of the trigger date.

              The  line  consists  of  five  date/time fields, seperated by at
              least  one  blank,  and  three  flag  characters  that  must  be
              consecutive.  As  usual,  flags are off if the character is ’-’,
              and on otherwise. The fields are:

              1/2/3    trigger  date,  month/day/year.  Year  can  be   either
                       70..99,00..38,    or    1970..2038.    Do   not   enter
                       appointments after 2037. If there is demand,  I’ll  fix
                       this bug in about 50 years.

              1:2:3    trigger  time, hour:minutes:seconds, in 24-hour format.
                       99:99:99 means that there is no alarm time ("-" in  the
                       time column).

              1:2:3    length, hour:minutes:seconds, in 24-hour format

              1:2:3    early-warning  time,  hour:minutes:seconds,  in 24-hour
                       format, 0:0:0 means there is no early warning

              1:2:3    late-warning  time,  hour:minutes:seconds,  in  24-hour
                       format, 0:0:0 means there is no late warning

              S        suspended (the green button at the left edge is off)

              P        private  (goes  into  the private dayplan file that has
                       mode 0600)

              N        no alarm (trigger warnings if  nonzero,  but  no  final
                       alarm)

              M        do not show this appointment in the month view

              Y        do not show this appointment in the year view

              W        do not show this appointment in the week view

              O        do not show this appointment in the year overview

              D        do not show this appointment in the day view

              t        this  is  an  active todo item, move to today if in the
                       past

              -        one unused flag, always ’-’

              0        appointment text color in month calendar: 0 is default,
                       1..8 are colors

              0        show  a  warning  this  many  days  in advance: 0 means
                       never, 1 means one day ahead, etc.

       E      Add an exception date to the appointment. After the ’E’,  a  tab
              and  a  date  m/d/y  on  which  the appointment will not trigger
              follow. There can be up to four ’E’ lines for  each  appointment
              (see NEXC in conf.h).

       R      Add  repetition information to the current entry. There are five
              numeric fields, separated by at least one  blank.  This  one  is
              particularly unsuited for human consumption, sorry.

              1      trigger alarm every <1> days (in seconds)

              2      delete  alarm  after  this  date  (seconds  since  1/1/70
                     0:00:00)

              3      weekday bitmap and nth-week bitmap:
                     bit0=sunday ... bit6=saturday
                     bit8=first ... bit12=fifth, bit13=last

              4      month day  bitmap,  bit0=last  day  of  the  month,  bits
                     1..31=on that day of the month

              5      if 1, the entry repeats every year; if 0, it doesn’t.

       N      Add  a  note  string  to  the current entry. All characters that
              follow the TAB are part of the note string.

       M      Add another line to the current entry’s message. All  characters
              that  follow the TAB are part of the line. There can be multiple
              M lines, they all add to the message.

       S      Add another line to the current entry’s script.  All  characters
              that  follow the TAB are part of the line. There can be multiple
              S lines, they all add to the script.

       G      Reserved for group meetings, not currently used.