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.TH PALM\-DATEBOOK\-REMINDERS 1 "12th January 2002" "Greenend" "chiark utilities"
.SH NAME
palm\-datebook\-reminders \- generate simple report from Palm Datebook DB
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BR PALM\-DATEBOOK\-REMINDERS " [\fIoptions\fP]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B palm\-datebook\-reminders
reads a Palm Datebook database and prints out a list of events in the
near future in a reasonably easy to read format.
.PP
Immiment events (ones in approximately the next 48 hours by default)
are listed with complete item text.  Forthcoming events (approximately
the next 4 weeks by default) are listed in summary form.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.IR imminent \fB/\fR forthcoming " | " \fB-t\fR imminent \fB/\fR forthcoming
Specifies that imminent and forthcoming events are ones within the next
.I immiment
and
.I forthcoming
seconds, respectively.
.TP
.IR filename " | \fB-f\fR" filename
Reads the file
.I filename
instead of
.BR ./DatebookDB.pdb .
If the bare form is used,
.I filename
must start with a
.B .
or
.B /
(dot or slash).
.SH BUGS
The program is not configurable enough.

The option parsing is very grotty.

Proper character set conversion is not performed.
.SH FILES
.TP
.BR DatebookDB.pdb
Default input file.
.SH AUTHOR
.B PALM\-DATEBOOK\-REMINDERS
and this manpage were written by Ian Jackson
<ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>.  They are Copyright 2003 Ian Jackson.

palm\-datebook\-reminders and this manpage are free software; you can
redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more
details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, consult the Free Software Foundation's
website at www.fsf.org, or the GNU Project website at www.gnu.org.

Palm Datebook is a piece of proprietary software supplied with Palm
organisers.  Palm and Datebook are probably trademarks.