[Remind-Fans] garbage day

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 18/04/06 Paul Pelzl said:

> Good one.  I *think* this works correctly:
> 
>    FSET _omitthurs(d) iif(isomitted(d), "OMIT Thu AFTER", "")
> 
>    REM Apr 3 2006 *14 SCANFROM [trigger(today()-7)] SATISFY 1
>    REM [trigger(trigdate()+3)] [_omitthurs(trigdate())] MSG garbage (black box)
> 
> I used SCANFROM to search for every other Monday, starting up to a week
> in the past.  When such a date is found, then a reminder is scheduled
> three days later... but I add the "OMIT Thu AFTER" clause if the
> original trigger date (Monday) was omitted.
> 
> Just duplicate those REM statements starting from "Apr 10 2006" to fill
> in the blue box weeks.

Impressive. I'll try this out and then try to decipher it. :)

Mike

-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
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