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Title: Gcal, the GNU calendar program

Version: 2.10

Entered-date: 16JUL96

Description: Gcal displays both month and year calendar sheets,
             eternal holiday lists and fixed date warning lists,
             in many ways.  The program correctly omits the dates
             that were skipped when the current Gregorian calendar
             replaced the earlier Julian calendar.


             Its main advantages over BSD-`cal' and `calendar' are:

             * Some special calendar sheet formats.
             * Variable number of year calendar sheet blocks.
             * Adjustable ordering of displayed dates.
             * Adjustable period of Gregorian Reformation.
             * Adjustable highlighting of holidays and actual day.
             * Variable starting day of week.
             * Output of current days of year, concatenated current
                 days of month and year.
             * Output of fiscal years.
             * Output of lists or ranges of months or years.
             * Sorted output of selectable eternal holiday lists, which
                 are generated automatically.
             * Sorted output of fixed date warning lists in MANY ways.
             * Allows the use of date and text variables.
             * Fixed dates can be stored in several files.
             * Nearly unlimited nesting level of include files.
             * Nearly unlimited internal text and table length's.
             * Default options can be stored in environment variable GCAL.
             * Options and commands stored in response files can be preloaded.
             * Uses either an external pager or a simple built-in pager.
             * Detailed Texinfo reference manual.
             * German, English and American program version.
             * Supports various computer platforms.
             * GNU-gettext internationalization technology, which allows
                 the use of message catalogs for most Native Languages.
             * GNU-Autoconf(igure) installation technology.
             * Supports both UN*X short-style options
                 and GNU long-style options.

             The package contains the [ANSI] C sources (with some POSIX
             extensions), and includes several example reminder/appointment
             files.

Keywords: calendar date deskutil appointment reminder agenda planning

Author: esken@uni-muenster.de (Thomas Esken)

Maintained-by: esken@uni-muenster.de (Thomas Esken)

Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/utils/shell
              968 kB gcal-2.10.tar.gz

Alternate-site: tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/sources/usr.bin
                968 kB gcal-2.10.tar.gz

Original-site: prep.ai.mit.edu /pub/gnu
               968 kB gcal-2.10.tar.gz

Platforms:

Copying-policy: Freeware, GPL GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991

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