[Remind-Fans] Hi Remind newbie

[Shelagh Manton]

On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 20:30 -0400, Paul Brookbanks wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> I have worked at this for what seems days but can't figure it out. Note
> I have created a .reminders file in my home dir. Also, I'm using ubuntu.
> 
> The remind command by itself reveals this: cec at home:~$ remind
> No reminders.
> 
You need to write the reminders in the file itself for remind to do it's stuff.
You can them put remind in your .bashrc file, which is also in your home
folder. The .reminders file is a sort of script in itself which is
written in the remind mini-language. To be useful it needs to be either
accessed through an automatic thing like telling bash to use it in
your .bashrc file, a cron script to email you reminders or by using a
frontend such as tkremind (you should have this, its part of the remind
package) or wxremind or wyrd. These last three also have ways of
entering stuff into your .reminders file.

So what you have been entering on the command line should be written in
your .reminders file.

Hope this is helpful

Shelagh
> when I type  remind 14 Aug MSG <whatever> I get the following output and
> nothing is written to the .reminders file:
> 
> cec at home:~$ remind 14 Aug meet with Bill
> REMIND 03.00.24 (English version) Copyright 1992-1998 David F. Skoll
> Copyright 1999-2005 Roaring Penguin Software Inc.
> Usage: remind [options] [filename [date] [time] [*rep] ]
> Options:
>  -n     Output next occurrence of reminders in simple format
>  -r     Disable RUN directives
>  -c[n]  Produce a calendar for n (default 1) months
>  -c+[n] Produce a calendar for n (default 1) weeks
>  -w[n[,p[,s]]]  Specify width, padding and spacing of calendar
>  -s[+][n] Produce `simple calendar' for n (1) months (weeks)
>  -p[n]  Same as -s, but input compatible with rem2ps
>  -l     Prefix each simple calendar line with line number and filename
> comment
>  -v     Verbose mode
>  -o     Ignore ONCE directives
>  -t     Trigger all future reminders regardless of delta
>  -h     `Hush' mode - be very quiet
>  -a     Don't trigger timed reminders immediately - just queue them
>  -q     Don't queue timed reminders
>  -f     Trigger timed reminders by staying in foreground
>  -z[n]  Enter daemon mode, waking every n (5) minutes.
>  -d...  Debug: e=echo x=expr-eval t=trig v=dumpvars l=showline
>  -e     Divert messages normally sent to stderr to stdout
>  -b[n]  Time format for cal: 0=am/pm, 1=24hr, 2=none
>  -x[n]  Iteration limit for SATISFY clause (def=150)
>  -kcmd  Run `cmd' for MSG-type reminders
>  -g[ddd] Sort reminders by date, time and priority before issuing
>  -ivar=val Initialize var to val and preserve var
>  -m     Start calendar with Monday rather than Sunday
> cec at home:~$ 
> 
> 
> 
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