On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 01:48:53PM -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote: > > >> ... I want a reminder, say, seven days before and then > > >> a repeating reminder until I tell the reminder program > > >> I have done what it's reminding me about. > > > > > > iCal can do this. Mark an entry as a TODO, and it will > > > keep coming back every day until checked off as done. > > > > POSIX, or MacOSX-specific? > > Certainly not MacOSX-specific, since I'm running it on Red Hat 9 > Linux here at the office and I also run it on FreeBSD at home. > I have no idea what, if anything, POSIX may have to say about the > matter. > > There may be more than one calendar application claiming the > same name. This one was written in Tcl/Tk by Sanjay Ghemawat > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and was somewhat of an orphan as long ago > as Red Hat 6.2 (which is where I first found it). > > BTW the FVWM list (and I think most other open-source help lists) > prefers to keep discussions on the list, so that others who may > have the same question, currently or when searching the archives > in the future, can also find the answer. > I'm the OP, I searched for iCal with Google and there are indeed two iCals, one is the well known (and current) Apple iCal and the other is the one referred to above which has been a bit of an orphan for a while but does have a few people working on it.
Re my original question I have found that ReminderFox now has the ability I want - it'll keep reminding me about an upcoming regular event until I mark it as complete but will still remind me again the next time the event becomes due. So I'll probably stay with ReminderFox. -- Chris Green
