[Remind-Fans] Wyrd V Google Calendar
Fintan Gaughan
fgaughan at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 13:40:18 EST 2007
Worked it out, I did what i suposed to to do... RTFM
yep i re read it again at work ( i was bored)
This brilliant reminder does more that any other calender /reminder
service.. well impressed.
I feel like going to my local pub for a beer at tell em what great
software it is :-)
Fintan
On 01/03/07, Fintan Gaughan <fgaughan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Having Remind and Wyrd set up and very happy with it.
> Switchng from google to wyrd is painless and i had noticed remind have
> some function that google haven't
>
> For axample reading the manual under USER-DEFINED FUNCTIONS
> "In addition to the built-in functions, Remind allows you to define
> your own functions. The FSET command does this for you:
>
> FSET fname(args) expr
>
> Fname is the name of the function, and follows the convention for
> naming variables. Args is a comma-separated list of arguments, and
> expr is an expression. Args can be empty, in which case you define a
> function taking no parameters. Here are some examples:
>
> FSET double(x) 2*x
> FSET yeardiff(date1, date2) year(date1) - year(date2)
> FSET since(x) ord(year(trigdate())-x)
>
>
>
> The last function is useful in birthday reminders. For example:
>
> REM 1 Nov +12 MSG Dean's [since(1984)] birthday is %b.
>
>
>
> Dean was born in 1984. The above example, on 1 November 1992, would print:
> Dean's 8th birthday is today."
>
>
>
>
> I have not been able to get this to work does the fset have to be
> somewhere as typing
> REM 1 Nov +12 MSG Dean's [since(1984)] birthday is %b. in text file
> produce errors
>
> Fintan
>
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