[Remind-Fans] Remind-fans Digest, Vol 30, Issue 5

John Shafer jshafer at nd.edu
Wed Aug 9 17:40:26 EDT 2006


Well, my method worked, but I suspected that it was overly  
complicated.  It appears that I was right about that.  Thanks for the  
tip.  That makes the whole thing quite a bit simpler.

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John Shafer
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Notre Dame
Dept. of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences


On Aug 9, 2006, at 12:00 PM, remind-fans-request at whatexit.org wrote:

> If I understand what's going on here, I think this grepping  
> business is
> unnecessary.  You are running remind in daemon mode, which means that
> "only timed reminders are collected and queued" and "Remind also
> re-reads the remind script when it detects that the system date has
> changed" (according to the manpage).
>
> In other words, you can launch a remind daemon that directly accesses
> your reminders file, and It Just Works.
>
> Paul




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