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CHANGES TO REMIND
* Version 3.1 Patch 2 - BETA 2
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- build.tk tries to set defaults for location, paper size, etc from an
existing "remind" installation if it detects one.
- In queue mode, wake up once a minute and recalibrate sleep time.
This should make Remind work better on laptops that suspend or
hibernate. Note that "remind -q" does *not* handle date-rollover
well; it simply exits if it notices date rollover. "remind -z0"
(as used by tkremind) handles date rollover properly; it rereads the
reminder file and rebuilds the queue if it notices date rollover.
+ BUG FIXES
- Silence gcc warning on Ubuntu 7.04
* Version 3.1 Patch 2 - BETA 1
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- tkremind: Added some key bindings to make navigation easier.
- tkremind: Made calendar boxes use space more efficiently.
- remind: The functionality of "rem" is now built into remind. If you
invoke remind as "rem", then it uses a default filename. The installer
sets up "rem" as a symbolic link to "remind".
+ CHANGE
- "remind -p" no longer sorts SPECIAL reminders before non-SPECIAL.
*** THIS MAY AFFECT BACKENDS ***
Backends supplied by Roaring Penguin (rem2ps, rem2html and tkremind)
are known to work properly.
- "remind -p" no longer suppresses any AT-time associated with SPECIAL
reminders.
*** THIS MAY AFFECT BACKENDS ***
Backends supplied by Roaring Penguin (rem2ps, rem2html and tkremind)
are known to work properly.
+ BUG FIXES
- examples/defs.rem: A few corrections to Jewish holidays courtesy of
Art Werschulz.
- src/Makefile.in: Added install-nostripped target.
- SPECIAL COLOR now works more like MSG, including proper support for AT and
for the %" %" escape sequence.
- SPECIAL COLOR is queued correctly if it has an AT clause.
- Using the psshade() or psmoon() functions emits a warning on stderr. You
should use SPECIAL SHADE or SPECIAL MOON instead.
* Version 3.1 Patch 1 - 23 August 2007
+ MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added the "nonomitted" function that solves a number of
moving-reminder-in-response-to-holiday problems. The real-world
problems solved are the "moving-garbage-day" problem and the
"six-day-school-cycle" problem.
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- A few minor performance improvements in response to profiling runs.
+ BUG FIXES
- Prevent compilation failure with gcc 2.95.
- Fix trailing "s" bug with -k option. This was fixed in Debian's release,
but the Debian maintainer never bothered to let me know.
- Removed obsolete scripts: kall, rem, remind-all.sh, remind-all.csh
- Made "-n" output always use "/" as date separator for consistency with
"-p" and "-s".
- Moon PNG images are transparent. Output of moon phases in rem2html
improved slightly.
- Various man-page fixes.
* Version 3.1 Patch 0 - 14 August 2007
+ MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added the FROM clause. This lets you write reminders like:
REM Mon FROM 16 July 2007 UNTIL 13 Aug 2007 MSG Some Mondays...
- Remind now has a new datatype: A DATETIME object represents a date AND
a time (to the nearest minute). DATETIME constants are written
as '2007-09-01@14:33'. Various operators and functions have been
modified to do sensible things with DATETIMEs and several new DATETIME
functions have been added.
- The SPECIAL COLOR reminder type has been hacked to behave more like
a MSG type. It sorts properly and is emitted as a normal reminder
in non-calendar mode. Simlarly, SPECIAL HTML sorts with -g as well.
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- TkRemind can e-mail you reminders if you don't dismiss the popup window
after one minute. This is useful if you need to leave your workstation
but want reminders to "follow" you via e-mail.
- A new "-y" option to Remind generates tags for all reminders that lack
a TAG clause. This may be useful for conversion tools that want each
reminder to have a unique identifier.
- A new "tzconvert" function lets you convert datetimes between different
time zones. It's only as good as your C library, so test thoroughly
please! Based on a patch from Stefan Wehr.
- TkRemind sorts reminders by invoking Remind with the '-g' option.
- The time and date separator characters can be changed at runtime by
setting $TimeSep and $DateSep respectively.
- The simple calendar ('-s') option can be immediately followed by an 'a'.
This causes Remind to output reminders with deltas before the actual
trigger date. Based loosely on an idea from Frank Terbeck.
+ MINOR CHANGES
- Default date separator is now '-' instead of '/'
- trigdate() and trigtime() behave differently - they return the integer 0
if the last reminder could not be computed or did not have an AT clause
(respectively).
- Maximum length of variable names has been increased from 12 to 16 characters.
+ BUG FIXES
- Fixed a potential memory leak in queue.c
- Fixed compile error on Mac OS X.
- Fixed behaviour of "-sa" option so deltas correctly obey omitted days
and the scheduling function (if one is used).
- rem2ps would produce invalid PostScript in some rare cases
(eg, for February 2007). This has been fixed.
* Version 3.0 Patch 24
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Permit the DURATION of a reminder to be as high as you like. Previously,
DURATIONs could be at most 23:59. Fix courtesy of Paul Pelzl.
- The "-n" flag can be usefully combined with "-s", "-p" and "-l" now.
Fix courtesy of Paul Pelzl.
+ BUG FIXES
- The "-k" command escapes all characters except those known to be
safe, rather than attempting to escape only characters thought to be
unsafe.
- Removed the crufty code that supported non-ANSI C compilers.
- Removed all support for non-UNIX/non-Linux systems.
- Fixed a bug in the tokenizer that could make Remind segfault. Fix courtesy
of Stan Tobias.
* Version 3.0 Patch 23
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added the COLOR special for putting colored reminders in the calendar.
Supported by the HTML, Tcl/Tk and PostScript back-ends.
- Many minor tweaks to tkremind.
- Added ability to specify paper size in inches or centimetres to rem2ps.
- Added the "-l" option to Remind. This outputs additional information
for back-end programs that use the "-p" output format. Currently
used only by the "tkremind" back-end.
- Fixed dates for Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha'atzmaut if 5 Iyar falls on a
Saturday. (Hebrew calendar fix.)
- Added support for the Icelandic language, courtesy of Björn Davíðsson.
+ BUG FIXES
- Fixed parser error for unterminated date constant: '2005/01/01
* Version 3.0 Patch 22
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added option to have TkRemind display all of today's reminders in a text
box on startup. This option is on by default.
- Makefile in "www" directory allows you to add ".cgi" suffix to CGI scripts.
- Added option to completely delete a reminder from the reminder file in
the timed reminder popup dialog.
- Clarified build instructions.
+ BUG FIXES
- Fixed packing order in TkRemind so resizing window doesn't make control
buttons disappear.
- Fixed serious bug in which background queued reminders were ignored and
Remind simply exited. Doh! Sorry about that.
* Version 3.0 Patch 21
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Updated copyright years and contact info.
- Changed GIF images to PNG to avoid patent problems.
- Added "cm2trem.tcl" to convert from CDE's "cm" calendar manager to Remind
format. It handles only an older version of "cm" data; there is a utility
available (under Solaris anyway) to convert newer files to the older "cm"
format.
- Fixed the scripts in the "www" directory to install and work properly.
- Added "remind.vim" file for Vim syntax highlighting of Remind files,
thanks to Davide Alberani.
- Added "dusk" and "dawn" built-in functions, thanks to Ron Aaron.
+ BUG FIXES
- Files for no-longer-supported platforms (OS/2, amiga, MS-DOS) have been
moved to OBSOLETE subdirectory. They will disappear unless someone
wants to maintain them.
- Fixed typo which caused compilation failure on compilers without function
prototypes. Thanks to Ian Darwin for the patch.
- Fixed compilation problem on FreeBSD, IRIX, Tru64 and other UNIXes.
* Version 3.0 Patch 20
+ NEWS
- I have started a company, Roaring Penguin Software
Inc. (http://www.roaringpenguin.com) and it now holds the Remind copyright.
+ LICENSE CHANGE
- Remind is now distributed under the pure GPL. See the file WINDOWS for my
feelings about a Windows port, however.
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Made TkRemind adjust for really low-resolution displays if necessary.
- Added more print options to TkRemind, courtesy of Niels Kristian Bech Jensen.
- Added Spanish language support, courtesy of Rafa Couto.
+ BUG FIXES
- Changed copyright notices to Roaring Penguin Software Inc.
- Rem2PS was passing specials like HTML, etc. in PostScript output.
YECH! Fix courtesty of Derek J. Decker.
- Fixed a typo in danish.h, courtesy of Niels Kristian Bech Jensen.
* Version 3.0 Patch 19
+ MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added MOON and SHADE specials. These now work with PostScript,
HTML and Tcl/Tk front-ends. You can have cute moons and shaded
boxes on your printer, on your screen and in your web browser. :-)
- TkRemind overhauled -- you can now edit and delete reminders from
the GUI. You can actually reasonably use Remind without learning
the scripting language.
- TkRemind overhauled -- "server mode" added to Remind; TkRemind will
now pop up timed reminders.
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Updated romanian.h, courtesy Liviu Daia.
+ BUG FIXES
- Allowed object files to be built in different directory from
source files (thanks to Jonathan Kamens <jik@American.COM>
- Removed restriction against reading group-writable files. This
caused headaches on Red Hat Linux which uses an unusual user/group
scheme.
- Remind would not compile if a non-English language was selected.
- Fixed free() of a NULL pointer.
- Made tkremind display a helpful error message if Remind's
"security feature" of not reading a group-writable file kicks
in.
- Fixed bug which sometimes prevented reminder times from appearing
in a calendar display.
- Lots more silly little bugs squashed -- too many to go into in
detail.
* Version 3.0 Patch 18
+ MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added the script "build.tk" which makes it trivial to compile
and install Remind under UNIX -- no need to edit Makefiles or
header files. A nice GUI installation dialog!
- Got rid of all fixed-size buffers. Hurray! Everything is dynamic --
no built-in limits on line length, token size, etc. This should
cure lots of SEGV's for weird files.
- Added TAG and DURATION clauses for communicating more information to
back-ends and eventually converting REMIND into a full-fledged
scheduler.
- Completely reworked the PS/PSFILE mechanism to use the more
general SPECIAL mechanism for customizing output in REMIND back-ends.
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Made parser _very_ forgiving -- the type of reminder now defaults
to MSG. This lets you have lines in the reminder file like this:
Feb 9, 1998 Meeting with Joe.
But I don't recommend abusing it. It's mostly to ease migration from
UNIX calendar(1) files.
- Documented the "remind -p" format.
- Made Remind communicate day and month names to back-ends so they
can automatically take on the language Remind was compiled with.
- Directory structure totally reorganized. Remind now uses an autoconf
"configure" script which should make life very pleasant for UNIX
people.
- Made Rem2HTML work properly if more than one month's worth of calendar
data was produced. Rem2HTML also escapes any special HTML characters.
However, it recognizes a "SPECIAL HTML" type of reminder which lets
you put arbitrary HTML code in your calendar entries. See www/rem2html
for details.
- Added the "-a" option to Rem2HTML to complement the "-p" option. Also
made Rem2HTML print a usage message if input is coming from a terminal.
+ BUG FIXES
- Fixed sunset(), sunrise() and minsfromutc() functions which were broken
by 3.0.17. (In 3.0.17, they did not account for daylight savings time.)
- Updated "finnish.h" to include proper URL and translation of all
error messages.
+ BUG INTRODUCTIONS
- The reorganization and use of "configure" probably breaks Remind
installation on non-UNIX platforms. Sorry. I can't fix it until
I hear back from non-UNIX maintainers.
- Getting rid of fixed-sized buffers meant lots of changes to code.
No doubt, I missed a few regression tests.
* Version 3.0 Patch 17
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Made REMIND accept date specs like "Jan 6, 1998" -- the comma is
ignored. This was suggested by John Conover <john@johncon.johncon.com>.
You can even do "REM 27, Aug, 1998, msg bar". (But I don't know why
you'd want to.)
- Added www/rem2html, a Perl script which converts the output of
`remind -p ...' to an HTML table. The script was contributed by
Don Schwarz <darkowl@mcs.net>
- New security features: Because of the risks of statically-allocated
buffers, REMIND now refuses to run if it is installed set-uid or set-gid.
If REMIND is run as root, it refuses to read files not owned by root.
It also won't open group- or world-writable files, no matter who is
running it. Finally, if you read a file you don't own, REMIND disables
RUN and shell(). REMIND doesn't do these security checks on stdin,
though, so be careful if you run it as root in a script.
NOTE: REMIND doesn't do the world- and group-writable checks
on devices, FIFOs, etc. Otherwise "remind /dev/null" fails...
+ BUG FIXES
- Increased sizes of some statically-allocated buffers. This doesn't
really fix the problem, but makes it more manageable.
- Using the "-u" option now implies the "-r" option. This is a
security feature.
- Added romanian.h to the manifest. Sorry.
- CalcMinsFromUTC was failing if time_t was unsigned. I now use
difftime(), but not all systems have it. Also, defs.rem was rearranged
so PostScript stuff works better, and new target "emxomf" was added to
makefile.os2 which uses OMF linking and a dynamically-linked C
library. All three of these fixes are courtesy of Christopher
J. Madsen <madsen@iglobal.net>. Thanks, Christopher.
* Version 3.0 Patch 16
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Bundled scripts for making a nice WWW calendar server. See the
"www" subdirectory in the release.
- Added support for the Romanian language, courtesy of Liviu Daia.
- Changed sunrise() and sunset() as follows: If the sun never rises,
sunrise() returns 1440 and sunset() returns 0. In this case,
sunrise()-sunset() returns the length of the dark period of the
day, in minutes. If the sun never sets, sunrise() returns 0 and
sunset() returns 1440, and sunset()-sunrise() returns the length
of the light period of the day, in minutes. Thanks to Michael Salmon
for explaining the utility of this. See the file "defs.rem" for the
functions _light_len and _dark_len which return the length in minutes
of the light and dark period of the day, respectively.
+ BUG FIXES
- If you used the "-g" option, then no background reminders were
ever issued. DOH! Thanks to Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu>
for pointing this out.
- Fixed a problem under Solaris 2.5 whereby rem2ps was skipping some
latin1 characters which it interpreted as white space.
* Version 3.0 Patch 15
+ IMPORTANT NOTES
- The tar file now unpacks into a Remind subdirectory rather than into
the current working directory.
- I no longer support Remind under DOS. I don't think I've done anything
to stop it from working under DOS, but will no longer compile and test
it under DOS, and can't help you if you get stuck. Sorry -- I no longer
have a DOS machine.
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Changed psshade() to accept 1 or 3 arguments for colored shading in
PostScript calendar mode.
- Added a Print dialog to tkremind.
- Added support for Brazilian Portuguese courtesy of Marco Paganini
- Added support for Italian courtesy of Valerio Aimale
+ BUG FIXES
- Fixed confusing error in rem2ps help messages.
- Fixed bug in TkRemind which caused a crash if the "-m" option was used
for a month beginning on Sunday. Doh!!!
* Version 3.0 Patch 14
+ CHANGE IN COPYING POLICY
- Remind is now distributed under an _AMENDED_ version of the Gnu
General Public License. These amendments are listed in the
file COPYRIGHT. The amendments were made for personal reasons;
please don't ask me to explain them. They probably don't affect
you, anyway.
+ MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added an X-Windows front-end to Remind. To use it, you must be
running under X-Windows on UNIX, and have the "wish" tcl/tk
interpreter, version 7.4 of tcl and 4.0 of tk. The front-end is
called "tkremind".
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added the WARN keyword for precise advance notice. You can now
have advance warning 5, 3, 1 and 0 days in advance (for example.)
The WARN keyword operates similarly to the SCHED keyword in that it
calls a user-defined function to obtain the advance warning sequence.
- Added support for QDOS/SMSQ on the Sinclair QL microcomputer,
courtesy of Robert H. Klein <kleir000@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
NOTE THAT I CANNOT TEST NOR SUPPORT THIS VERSION!
- Added support for AmigaDOS / SAS/C, courtesy of Martin Hohl
<martinh@caverna.tynet.sub.org>. As before, I CANNOT TEST NOR
SUPPORT THIS VERSION, but will rely on feedback from others.
+ BUG FIXES
- Removed the "-n" option from Rem2PS. Instead, if you want the
PostScript calendar to start on a Monday, supply the "-m" option
to Remind. It was repugnant to have two options to two programs
to accomplish one thing.
- The "hebdate" built-in function worked incorrectly with 5 arguments.
The bug was pointed out by Hershel Safer <h.safer@ieee.org>
- This would hang up REMIND: REM Mon 31 Feb MSG Foo
and this would fail quietly: REM Mon 31 Feb 1996 MSG Foo
Both have been fixed and now report bad date specifications.
- Remind now compiles without complaint under gcc -ansi -Wall -pedantic
(on my Linux system, anyway!)
+ IMPORTANT NOTE
- I had problems building the DOS version with Turbo C. I have access
only to ancient versions of Turbo C and Microsoft C. Remind built
fine with Microsoft C, but the TC version hung up. I am not too
interested in maintaining the DOS version, so when the MSC compiler
no longer works, I will drop DOS support. Please not that I will
_not_ support MS Windows, and in fact do not allow Remind to run
under Windows (see COPYRIGHT).
* Version 3.0 Patch 13
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added extra parameters to the "psmoon" built-in function so you
can annotate the PostScript moon icons.
- Added a command-line "time" argument to Remind for testing Remind
scripts with specific system times. Also added the realnow() function
which has the same relationship to now() as realtoday() has to today().
(See the man page!)
- Modified Rem2PS so it prints progress messages to stderr if
'-v' command-line argument is used.
- In the top of the 'finnish.h' file, added a note about
Mikko Silvonen's file of Finnish holidays.
+ BUG FIXES
- Fixed a bug in rem2ps which sometimes caused incorrect PostScript if
the -e and -m options were used. Thanks to Michael Neuhauser for
reporting the bug and providing a fix.
- Made the '-k' option escape shell characters in the message to make it
safer.
- Fixed a segmentation violation which resulted if not all
PUSH-OMIT-CONTEXTs were balanced by POP-OMIT-CONTEXTs.
- Removed the prototype for DestroyValue, which is now a macro. I'm
amazed that very few compilers complained about this one!
- Updated the copyright notices everywhere.
* Version 3.0 Patch 12
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added support for the Danish language, courtesy of Mogens Lynnerup.
- Added support for the Polish language, courtesy of Jerzy Sobczyk.
- Made the Makefile more portable, thanks to Jim Budler.
- Removed some compiler warnings under Linux, thanks to Francois Pinard.
- Tidied the man page a bit; added a small bibliography.
+ BUG FIXES
- Fixed a problem with the '-k' option which resulted in a newline being
placed after the message text. This was giving sh(1) heartburn...
* Version 3.0 Patch 11
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added release notes to README.UNIX and README.OS2 describing one
way to make pop-up alarms under X-Windows and Presentation Manager.
- Added the $DefaultPrio system variable
- Improved OS/2 support, thanks to Darrel Hankerson, Russ Herman
and Norman Walsh.
- Made the pushing and popping of operators and operands during
expression evaluation in-line code instead of function calls. Did the
same for DestroyValue. I'm not sure if this was a good idea -- on the
Sparc using gcc, this slowed things down... go figure.
+ BUG FIXES
- Fixed a potential memory leak in the char() function.
- Made the TRIGGER() built-in function return its answer in English even
for the foreign-language versions -- this was required for compilers which
are not 8-bit clean, and for languages with accented letters.
- Made expression evaluation slightly faster by eliminating some unnecessary
copying of string values.
- Corrected some non-portable definitions of the macro UPPER(c)
- Fixed typos in french.h
* Version 3.0 Patch 10
+ MAJOR ENHANCEMENT
- OS/2 support is now much better, thanks to Russ Herman. The Borland
C compiler under OS/2 and MS-DOS is supported.
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added the SCHED keyword for precise control of scheduling of timed
reminders -- it's really quite nifty!
- Modified the trigger() function to take up to three arguments -- in
addition to a date, you can specify a time and a flag specifying that
the trigger should be converted from UTC to local time.
- Added $SortByDate, $SortByTime and $SortByPrio system variables.
- Added test suites for MS-DOS and OS/2, courtesy of Russ Herman.
- In PostScript output, the month and year are output in the %%Page: comments.
Makes it nicer to view multi-month calendars with previewers (eg,
GhostView.)
- Added the PRIORITY keyword for more control of sort order of reminders.
Based on a suggestion by George M. Sipe.
- Added the msgprefix() and msgsuffix() evaluations around MSG-type
reminders for doing fancy things with reminders of different priorities.
Also added calprefix() and calsuffix() for doing the same thing in
calendar mode.
- Enabled the -g option during calendar mode as well as regular mode.
+ BUG FIXES
- Fixed minor bugs in the LocalToUTC and UTCToLocal functions.
- "remind -c -de file" used to cause a segmentation violation. Whoops...
- Some files which should have included <string.h> didn't include it - these
are now fixed.
- Fixed the moondate() and moontime() functions, which used to be incorrect
after November 1994.
- Fixed the Finnish language support which was missing a few newlines.
* Version 3.0 Patch 9
+ NOTES
- Remind is now too big to compile under the "small" model in
MS-DOS. You must recompile everything under the "medium" model.
+ MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Functions moonphase(), moondate() and moontime() were added for dealing
with phases of the moon. The code was snarfed from "moontool" by
John Walker - see the file "moon.c" for detailed acknowledgement. Also
added psmoon() for putting little moon symbols on the PostScript calendar.
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added some more examples to defs.rem - notably, support for ANSI
terminal color-changing escape sequences, thanks to Gail Gurman.
- Modified both Remind and Rem2PS so that calendars can start on Sunday or
Monday, depending on your preference. Unfortunately, the command-line
options are different -- for Remind, it's '-m' and for Rem2PS it's '-n'
because '-m' was already in use. Based on a suggestion by John Plate
and a patch sent by Mikko Silvonen.
- The Finnish language support is better - now, all usage and error
messages are in Finnish. In addition, the Finnish language module
supports the IBM extended character set as well as ISOLATIN1.
Thanks to Mikko Silvonen.
- Modified Rem2PS to allow more control over the placement of the small
calendars, thanks to a suggestion by Frank Vance. Also added option
to control the calendar title (e.g., "September 1993") independently
of day-of-week headings.
- Added the psshade() function to make it easier to shade PostScript
calendars.
- Allowed a repeat parameter '*num' to be supplied on command line so
a 'preview' of many days' worth of reminders can be obtained easily.
- Added the $Location system variable.
- Allowed an expression to be supplied to EXIT to return an exit
status.
- Added the FLUSH command.
+ BUG FIXES
- Fixed the MSF-type reminder to fill paragraphs more intelligently.
It puts double spaces after '!', '.' and '?', and can handle quotes,
brackets, etc. after periods, etc. These characters can be specified
with the $EndSent and $EndSentIg system variables. Also modified it
so that newlines in the body start new paragraphs, rather than being
swallowed as white-space.
* Version 3.0 Patch 8
+ MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Changed the code to more fully support foreign languages - error
messages and usage instructions can now be changed. All changes can
be localized in the appropriate language.h files.
- Added support for the French language, courtesy of Laurent Duperval.
Note that the French support is more complete than for other languages -
French usage instructions and error messages are supported.
- Added support for the Norwegian language, courtesy of Trygve Randen.
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added code for the functions timelocal() and timegm(), courtesy of
Lucio de Re. This is for those very few machines whose libraries
include neither those functions nor mktime().
- Added the filedate() function.
- Allowed the filename to be specified as "-" to cause Remind to take
its input from the standard input stream.
- Added the "MSF" keyword to cause reminders to be formatted automatically.
This keyword paragraph-fills reminder text following user specifications.
Based on a suggestion by Ken McGlothlen.
- Added the "-e" option to Rem2PS, allowing the PostScript calendar
to fill the entire page. Thanks to Arthur G. Yaffe.
+ BUG FIXES
- Corrected the Hebrew holidays Tzom Gedalia, Tzom Tevet, Ta'anit
Esther, Tzom Tamuz and Tisha B'Av so they won't occur on Saturday.
Corrections made following the algorithm in "Calendrical Calculations"
by Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold.
- Changed the dutch.h language file as suggested by Erik-Jan Vens. Made
month and day names lower-case; corrected the spelling of oktober.
- Changed HashVal in var.c to use unsigned arithmetic - it's conceivable
that a machine with signed chars could cause problems otherwise.
- Changed the LONG_* macros in config.h to LON_* to avoid conflicts
with names defined by ANSI C. Thanks to David W. Sanderson.
- Allowed the built-in function char() to accept numbers in the
range [-128, 255] (but not 0) so that char(asc(s)) works even
on machines with signed char types.
* Version 3.0 Patch 7
+ MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added "system variables" to allow the user more control over
Remind operation, and to allow queries about the command-line
options from within a reminder script. They allow for specification
of longitude and latitude for use by sunrise/sunset calculations.
- Added sunrise(), sunset(), isdst() and minsfromutc() functions -
these are needed to support sunrise and sunset calculations.
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Allowed the MSG, RUN, CAL, PS and PSF keywords to be used in the
same reminder as the SATISFY keyword. This makes many complex
reminders more compact.
- Added the filedir() function to enable Remind's include to emulate
CPP's #include more closely.
- Allowed non-root users to use the "-u" option. It only affects
the "SHELL", "HOME", "USER" and "LOGNAME" environment variables -
it doesn't change the effective uid and gid when run by non-root.
- Added built-in function "easterdate" to calculate date of Easter
Sunday - function courtesy of Michael Salmon.
- Improved the Jewish holiday reminders in "defs.rem" to give advance
notice of holidays.
- Allowed the "simple calendar" option (-s) to specify a number of
weeks as well as a number of months, in the same fashion as the
-c option. Thanks to Dave Rickel.
+ BUG FIXES
- Corrected the behaviour of "hebdate" for jahrzeits; added an additional
parameter to specify the behaviour of dates in Adar during leap years.
- Changed kall so that "kall sh" doesn't commit suicide - patch courtesy
of Michael Salmon.
* Version 3.0 Patch 6
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added the PS- and PSFILE-type reminders - these allow you to include
arbitrary PostScript code in your PostScript calendars. Useful for
shading, drawing graphics on calendars, etc. Use with care, though!
- Added the "-ivar=val" option to initialize variables from the command
line. Changed the remind-all.* shell scripts to predefine the variable
"remind_all".
+ BUG FIXES
- Fixed a bug in the hebmon(), hebday() and hebyear() functions - there
was an off-by-one error. Sorry!
- Fixed a bug in the hebdate() function which resulted in infinite loops
for dates after about 2075
- Fixed a bug in the -u option which sometimes caused a core dump
(embarrassed grin!) The fix is due to Tina Hoeltig. Thanks, Tina!
* Version 3.0 Patch 5
+ MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS:
- Added support for the Hebrew calendar - can now specify Jewish holidays
easily. Thanks to Amos Shapir for explaining the Hebrew calendar, and
to Danny Sadinoff, from whose HEBCAL program I got some inspiration.
Also thanks to David W. Tamkin and Frank Yellin for explaining the rules
for jahrzeits.
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS:
- Allowed the default page size used by Rem2PS to be selected in config.h
- Edited the defs.rem file to contain Jewish holidays. Cleaned up some
of the examples and improved the layout - thanks to George M. Sipe.
- Modified the IIF function to be more general
- Updated finnish.h to support the ISO 8859-1 character set, courtesy
of Mikko Silvonen.
- Changed the date conversion routines to greatly speed up conversion from
Julian to yyyy/mm/dd form.
+ BUG FIXES:
- Fixed a bug in which Remind complained incorrectly about a missing quote
in the command SET foo ""
- Fixed bugs in dosubst.c which caused the %o, %1 and %@ substitutions
to be incorrect
- Fixed a bug in the man page - thanks to Ed Oskiewicz.
* Version 3.0 Patch 4
- Added the -g option - this sorts reminders by date/time before
issuing them. (You can see I'm running out of letters to
name options!) This feature was suggested by George M. Sipe,
Paul D. Smith, and Francois Pinard.
- Added the "args()" and "dosubst()" built-in functions - see the
man page for details.
- Added more support for the ISO 8859-1 character set, and
modified the german.h file to take advantage of this, thanks
to Robert Joop.
- Allowed any character to be used as date and time separator
characters (not just "/-:.")
- Added support for the Dutch and Finnish languages, thanks to
Willem Kasdorp and Mikko Silvonen. (Anyone care to contribute
French? Italian? Spanish?)
- Made Remind issue a warning if you try to redefine a built-in
function. This warning is disabled in 'Hush' mode.
- Added the SCANFROM clause to the REM command. This allows reasonably
safe moveable OMITs such as the Labour Day example in the manual.
- Added more examples to the defs.rem file, and cleaned up some old
examples. Note that there are now safe moveable holidays for most
U.S. holidays provided in the defs.rem file.
- Added the '-k' option, which allows MSG-type reminders to be passed
to any system command. (Idea and patch courtesy of Philipp Slusallek.)
- Allowed selection of ':' or '.' as time separator characters at
compile-time.
- Edited the COPYRIGHT file to clarify the rules. Please read them.
- Removed hard-coding of "am" and "pm" and placed them in language-specific
header files as #defines L_AM and L_PM
- Fixed a bug in the FindToken() routine which had, through sheer luck,
never been activated until the SCANFROM clause was added!
- Fixed the UNTIL clause to check for a valid expiry date.
- Removed identifiers in the C source beginning with "_" to conform
to ANSI practice.
- Fixed a bug in the -u option which resulted in environment variables
SHELL and USER not being set correctly. Also made -u set the LOGNAME
environment variable.
- Fixed a couple of typos in the man page; added LDFLAGS to the
Makefile. (Thanks to Dave Wolfe.)
- Put my new mailing address in the README files.
* Version 3.0 Patch 3
- Corrected bugs in Remind and Rem2PS. No new features added. You
should NOT use patch level 2 - either stick to 3.0.1 or upgrade to
3.0.3.
* Version 3.0 Patch 2
- Added the -u option to Remind so that root can run it as any user.
This simplifies the remind-all scripts, and makes them more efficient.
If you are worried that this option is a security hole, you can
disable it in config.h
- Changed the RUN command so that RUN OFF can be used anywhere, even
though RUN ON only works in the top-level file. This eases the
management of global files which may want to switch RUN OFF.
- Added ISO encoding (ISO 8859-1) to the PostScript output, courtesy of
Michael Salmon. This can be selected with the '-i' option in rem2ps.
- Added support for the '-' date separator as well as the '/' separator.
- Added support for languages other than English. Note that this support
is not complete - error messages are still in English. The idea and
German translation came from Wolfgang Thronicke.
- Changed the -w option to include the "padding" and "spacing" options.
NOTE INCOMPATIBILITY: In the previous patch level, creating a weekly
calendar using the -c+n option left no blank lines between the day
number and the first reminder entry. This has been changed so that one
blank line is left. To revert to the old behaviour, use the "-w,,0"
option.
- Added the -o option to Rem2ps. This allows you to specify the margins
when producing a PostScript calendar.
- Updated the copyright notices in all the files. :-)
- Added 'make clobber' and 'make test' targets to the Unix makefile.
- Corrected typos in WHATSNEW.30 and remind.1 man page. Thanks to
Dave Wolfe <dwolfe@pffft.sps.mot.com>
- Changed Remind so that supplying the -a option causes timed reminders
not to be placed into the calendar in calendar mode.
* Version 3.0 Patch 1
- Wrote the Rem2ps program to produce PostScript calendars
- Added an 'install' target to the Makefile
- Fixed a bug which allowed the shell() function to execute in timed
reminders which were queued with RUN disabled.
- Added support for OS/2, courtesy of DARREL HANKERSON
<HANK@DUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU>
- In expressions, can now specify literal dates as 'yyyy/mm/dd' rather than
using the date() function.
- Fixed all the source files to include "config.h" first.
- Changed the way triggers are calculated so that trigger dates are
always valid if year, month and day are specified, and there is no
UNTIL clause. See MAN page section "DETAILS ABOUT TRIGVALID()."
- Defined _POSIX_SOURCE so Remind will compile on SGI workstations (and
be more portable... I hope.)
- Fixed some rather brain-dead definitions of UPPER and LOWER, as pointed
out by <rsalz@osf.org>
- Added more details to the Man page concerning how triggers are computed,
and added warnings about computing OMIT dates.
- Added the file defs.rem which contains examples of useful definitions and
triggers.
- Changed the script test-rem to be a sh script instead of csh for improved
portability.
- Fixed up the README.* files to reflect the changes.
- Re-formatted the WHATSNEW.30 file.
* Version 3.0
- Total rewrite from previous versions
- Added variables, expressions, flow-control statements, daemon mode
- Added "expression pasting"
- Added CAL-type reminders
- Added the SATISFY clause
- Improved debugging of reminder scripts
- Took out the "purge" option - it is in general too dificult to tell when
a reminder has expired for good, so now it's up to you to do this
by hand.
- Fixed a lurking bug in trigger date calculation which, amazingly, had not
been caught in the couple of years that Remind has been out!
* Version 2.3 Patch 5
- Added the "c+n" option for printing a calendar by
weeks instead of months, courtesy Dennis Cottel (dennis@peanuts.nosc.mil).
* Version 2.3 Patch 4
- Made the init.c file nicer. Made the Makefile
prettier. Added "make test", "make tar" and "make shar" Makefile targets.
* Version 2.3 Patch 3
- Added a command-line option for Remind to process
queued reminders in the foreground. This makes automatic termination
of Remind processes from within X-Windows and Sunview easier.
* Version 2.3 Patch 2
- Fixed up a problem with timed reminders which resulted
in cursor not starting from left side of screen on some systems.
- Fixed the SIGINT handler for SYSV systems - this was interrupting the
sleep(2) system call.
- Closed stdin and stdout if remind was part of a pipe - this prevents other
sections of the pipe from hanging as remind puts itself in the background.
- Added the "-h" (Hush mode) option
- Added the "%#" and "%@" modifiers for the current time.
- Made the Makefile more portable
* Version 2.3 Patch 1
- Added the "-t" command-line option to get Remind
to trigger all non-expired reminders.
- Added Turbo C support courtesy of Rhys Weatherly
- Added the "RUN ON" and "RUN OFF" commands for a secure interface with
the Elm mail system.
- Added the "rem" shell script for running Remind with a default script.
- Added manual pages for "kall" and "rem".
* Version 2.3
- Added the UNTIL keyword for forcing reminders to expire.
- Added the "++" form of 'back' and the "--" form of 'delta' for
ignoring OMIT information.
- Added the CLEAR-OMIT-CONTEXT, PUSH-OMIT-CONTEXT and POP-OMIT-CONTEXT
keywords for isolating personal or peculiar reminders from the global
OMIT context.
- Speeded up the parsing of tokens.
- Changed the source to recognize and exploit ANSI-C compilers which
accept function prototypes.
- Added the "-n" option to output the next occurrence of each reminder
in SimpleCalendar format
- Modified the calendar and SimpleCalendar formats so that the % escape
substitutions ARE performed.
* Version 2.2 - Patch 5
- Added the BEFORE, AFTER and SKIP tokens to make the
handling of holidays more sensible. Also corrected a few more bugs.
* Version 2.2 - Patch 3
- Added the MSG or RUN tokens in an OMIT command; also
allowed RUN-type reminders to be explicitly included in the calendar by
using the %" escape sequence.
* Version 2.2
- Added the AT keyword, the timed reminders daemon, and the
calendar facility.
* Version 2.1
- Added the "repeat" token for repeating reminders with a period
other than 7 days. Also fixed some bugs from version 2.0
* Version 2.0
- first public release. Included advanced date specifications,
character substitution, and the RUN keyword.
* Version 1.0
- never publicly released.
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