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NAME

       plan - interactive X/Motif calendar and day planner
       pland - daemon for plan
       notifier - X/Motif text displayer for

SYNOPSIS

       plan [options]
       plan [mmdd]hhmm [options] [message]*
       pland [-d] -[kK] -[lL]
       /usr/lib/plan/notifier  [-hdv123]  [-ttitle] [-ssubtitle] [-iicontitle]
       [file]

DESCRIPTION

       plan is a schedule planner  based  on  X/Motif.  It  displays  a  month
       calendar  similar  to  xcal,  but every day box is large enough to show
       appointments in small print. By pressing on a day box, the appointments
       for  that  day can be listed and edited. This manual page describes the
       command line options of plan.  For information  on  how  to  use  plan,
       refer to the on-line help pages.

       plan has three modes: GUI, which starts up with a window in interactive
       mode, append, which adds an appointment from the command  line  without
       windows,  and  batch,  which  prints  miscellaneous information without
       windows. Batch mode is mainly useful  for  external  scripts  (CGI  and
       otherwise) that process appointment data.

       pland  is a daemon that watches for appointment triggers. The daemon is
       normally started from your  .sgisession  or  .xsession  file.  It  puts
       itself  in  the  background.  If  plan  is  started,  it checks for the
       existence of the daemon, and offers to start one if it can’t find it.

       notifier displays the standard input  in  a  window,  with  appropriate
       titles and background colors. The only program that ever uses it is the
       daemon; it is a separate program only to keep the daemon small.

   OPTIONS OF PLAN, GUI MODE
       -s     Standalone, don’t offer to start daemon if none exists.  Without
              daemon,  no  appointment  alarms and warnings will trigger. If a
              daemon happens to  exist,  it  is  notified  when  the  database
              changes, but no warning is printed if it doesn’t.

       -S     When  plan  starts  up, silently start the daemon if it does not
              exist.

       -f     Don’t fork on startup. This is useful for debugging.

       -k     If there appears to be another plan running,  start  up  anyway.
              This  is useful if a ~/.plan.dir/lock.plan file got accidentally
              left behind, and plan fails to  check  whether  the  older  plan
              still exists. This option is largely obsolete in version 1.2.

   OPTIONS OF PLAN, APPEND MODE
       [mmdd]hhmm
              Add  an appointment at mm/dd hh:mm (month/day hours:minutes). If
              mmdd is not specified, today’s date is used. No menus will start
              up.  No  option  may  be  specified.  Instead  of  the  mmddhhmm
              notation, a date and time may  be  specified,  such  as  ’24.12.
              12:34’.

       -u U   add  appointment  to user file U instead of your own appointment
              file.

       -l T   Set the length  of  the  new  appointment  to  N,  in  the  form
              hours:minutes.

       -n T   Set  new  appointment will have no time associated with it. This
              overrides the time set with the [mmdd]hhmm option, which must be
              specified anyway.

       -r N   The  new  appointment  repeats  every  N  days.  N is an integer
              greater than zero.

       -d N   The new appointment repeats on day N  of  the  month.  N  is  an
              integer between 1 and 31. There can be multiple -d options.

       -D N   The  new appointment repeats on weekday N. N=0 indicates Sunday,
              1 is Monday, 2 is Tuesday, 3 is Wednesday, 4 is Thursday,  5  is
              Friday, and 6 is Saturday.  There can be multiple -D options.

       -O N   The  -D  days  only  repeat  the  Nth time of the month.  May be
              repeated.  For example, "-D 2 -O 2 -O 4" means the 2nd  and  4th
              Tuesdays of each month.  -O 6 means the last one.

       -e D   The  new  appointment  stops  repeating on date D. D is a string
              such as

       -w N   Set the early warning time of the new appointment to N  minutes.

       -W N   Set the late warning time of the new appointment to N minutes.

       [message]*
              The  note message associated with the new appointment. It should
              be quoted if it contains shell metacharacters.

   OPTIONS OF PLAN, BATCH MODE
       -h     List available options.

       -d     Print fallback X resources and exit. The output can be  appended
              directly  to  the  ~/.Xdefaults  file  for  modification  of the
              geometry, color, and font defaults.

       -v     Print the program version and patchlevel and exit.

       -W [S] Indicates that plan is not called by  a  user  but  by  the  web
              front-end.  In  this  case,  there  are  no ‘‘own’’ appointments
              because the CGI script that executes plan is probably run by the
              pseudo-user ‘‘nobody’’ or ‘‘httpd’’. A dummy user ‘‘webplan’’ is
              substituted instead, whose home directory is assumed to be /tmp.
              All  database  files from netplan server S will be read. If S is
              omitted, ‘‘localhost’’ is assumed. This mode is possible only if
              there  is  a  netplan  server  running on S (or localhost). This
              option is also available with -t  mode  and  in  non-interactive
              mode;  in this case it determines which files can be listed with
              -o -t, and which files can be edited.

       -F     Print a list of all appointment files found on a  given  netplan
              server.   By  default  the  server on the local host is queried,
              unless a -W option specifies another server host.

       -H Y   Print all holidays in the year  Y  (1970..2037)  to  stdout  and
              exit. This is used by the web front-end.

       -o     If  used  with  -t  or -T, also prints appointments of all users
              configured with the Config->Users popup.

       -u L   If used with -t or -T, prints appointments of all users named in
              the  comma-separated  list L. The -o and -u options are mutually
              exclusive.

       -t [D [n]]
              Print a list of today’s appointments to stdout. Don’t  start  up
              interactive   windows.  The  exit  status  is  0  if  there  are
              appointments on the specified date, and 1 otherwise. If a date D
              is specified, print appointments on that date. All standard date
              specifiers work:

              -t +3        Print appointments in three days

              -t -1        Print yesterday’s appointments

              -t tomorrow  Print appointments for tomorrow

              -t thursday  Print appointments for Thursday

              -t 25.12.    Print appointments for Christmas, if  24-hour  mode
                           is selected

              -t 12/25     Print  appointments  for Christmas, if 12-hour mode
                           is selected.  12/24 hour mode is selected with  the
                           Config pulldown in the main window.

              If  a  second  argument n is given, n days are printed beginning
              with day D.  The default is 1. For example, "plan  -t  today  7"
              prints one week.

       -T [D [n]]
              Same  as  -t,  but  print the end time instead of the length (hi
              Vera).

       -i     If used with the -t or -T options, print the data in a form that
              is  easy  to  parse  for other programs. This is used by the web
              front-end.

       -W [S] switch to web front-end mode and read the files from the netplan
              server  on host S, or localhost if S is omitted. These files can
              then be chosen from with -u. See above for details.

   OPTIONS OF PLAND
       -d     Debug mode. Runs pland in the foreground  without  forking,  and
              prints  debugging information. Recommended if pland seems to die
              unexpectedly.  (The most common cause of disappearing pland’s is
              a  nonfunctional  utmp;  if  -d  is  used  pland  recommends  to
              recompile with the -DRABBITS option.)  This option must  precede
              the other options.

       -l     Periodically  check  the system utmp to see if the user is still
              logged in. If not, exit. This is the default on  SGI,  Sun,  and
              other SYSV systems.

       -L     (capital  L)  Do  not  check utmp. Use this option if pland dies
              frequently, and  running  pland  with  the  -d  options  reports
              ‘‘logout, exiting’’ for no apparent reason. On many systems utmp
              is not reliable, and some programs like xterm so not create utmp
              records  unless  configured  properly.  Use  -L on such systems.
              This has been made the default for Debian GNU/Linux,  as  it  is
              safer that -l.

       -k     If another daemon exists, kill it and restart.

       -K     (capital K) If another daemon exists, kill it and exit.

   OPTIONS OF NOTIFIER
       -h     List available options.

       -d     Print  fallback X resources and exit. The output can be appended
              directly to  the  ~/.Xdefaults  file  for  modification  of  the
              geometry, color, and font defaults.

       -v     Print the program version and patchlevel and exit.

       -1     Set the window background color to green (early warning).

       -2     Set the window background color to yellow (late warning).

       -3     Set  the  window  background  color  to red (alarm). This is the
              default.

       -ttitle
              Set the title string above the message text (which is read  from
              stdin).

       -ssubtitle
              Set the subtitle string below the main title, in a small font.

       -iicontitle
              Set  the  icon  title  string that is printed below the mwm/4Dwm
              icon.

       In addition to these options, plan and notifier  support  the  usual  X
       options -iconic and -geometry.

FILES

       In  Debian,  all  user files are located in the ~/.plan.dir/ directory,
       and slightly renamed.

       ~/.plan.dir/dayplan
              Database with all public entries and  configuration  options  of
              plan.  See plan(4) for details.

       ~/.plan.dir/dayplan.priv
              Database with all private entries.

       ~/.plan.dir/holiday
              Definition  of  holidays.  See  the  help  text  for the "Define
              Holiday" popup menu that  can  be  installed  with  the  Holiday
              pulldown.

       ~/.plan.dir/lock.plan
              Lockfile  that  contains  the  PID  of  plan.   Used  to prevent
              multiple plan instances, and to send HUP signals to  if  a  non-
              interactive plan invocation changed the database.

       ~/.plan.dir/lock.pland
              Lockfile  that  contains  the  PID  of the pland daemon. Used to
              prevent multiple daemons, and to send  HUP  signals  to  if  the
              database changed for any reason.

       /usr/bin/plan
              The plan program.

       /usr/bin/pland
              The pland daemon.

       /usr/lib/plan/notifier
              The notifier program.

       /usr/share/plan/plan.help
              The online help texts used by plan.

       /usr/lib/plan/plan.help.X
              This help file replaces plan.help if the language is set to X in
              the Config Languages pulldown menu.

       /etc/plan/holiday
              Definition of system standard holidays.  They  are  read  before
              ~/.holiday,  and  can  be overridden in ~/.holiday. They must be
              edited manually with a text editor.  This files used to live  in
              /usr/lib/plan/.

       /usr/lib/plan/plan_cal.ps
              A  PostScript skeleton file required for month and year calendar
              printouts.

       /usr/lib/plan/plan.lang.english
              The standard message file. All messages used  in  plan  must  be
              listed  here  in  ASCII  order.  If  this  file is missing, only
              English messages are supported.

       /usr/lib/plan/plan.lang.X
              The message file for language X.  At  startup,  plan  scans  the
              /usr/lib/plan  directory and puts every file X it finds into the
              Config Language pulldown menu. A message is translated by  first
              looking  it  up  in the plan_cal_english file. If the message is
              found in line n, it is translated by using line n of plan.lang.X
              instead  if  X  was selected with the Language pulldown. See the
              Languages item in the online  help  menu  for  instructions  for
              creating new language files.

       Note  that,  though netplan(8) supports primitive access control (which
       requires editing a access list  text  file  on  the  server  host),  no
       support  for  access  control is provided by the plan front-end in this
       version. Refer to netplan(8) for details.

   SEE ALSO
       plan(4), netplan(8)

   AUTHOR
       Thomas Driemeyer <thomas@bitrot.de>

       Please  send  all  complaints,  comments,  bug   fixes,   and   porting
       experiences  to  me.  Always  include  your plan version as reported by
       "plan -v" in your mail.  To be added to the mailing list, send mail  to
       majordomo@bitrot.de with the line "subscribe plan" (without the quotes)
       in the message body (not the subject).

       See http://www.bitrot.de/plan.html for new releases.

   DEBIAN NOTE
       Please note that the Debian GNU/Linux  package  does  not  install  all
       executables  in  the  locations  where the upstream author places them.
       The locations documented in this manpage are the Debian ones.

                                                                       PLAN(1)