[Remind-Fans] jump forward by x working days

[Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz]

On Thu, 07 May 2009 22:18:36 -0400
"David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com> wrote:

> Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote:
> 
> > On the last day of the quarter or, if this is not a working day, on
> > the next working day, interest is sent from a savings account to
> > another bank account. The money arrives on the 3rd working day (=2
> > working days later).
> 
> > On the day of receipt I need a reminder.
> 
> [...]
> 
> This is what I came up with.  It seems to work, but I haven't tested
> it thoroughly.  It's also bizarre enough that I'm starting not to
> understand it myself!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David.
> 
> #
> ========================================================================
> OMIT 1 Jan MSG New Year's Day
> 
> SET payday evaltrig("31 Dec OMIT Sat Sun AFTER", today() - 31)
> REM [trigger(payday)] OMIT Sat Sun AFTER SCANFROM [trigger(payday)]
> *1 \ SATISFY [nonomitted(payday, trigdate(), "Sat", "Sun") == 2 ] \
>   MSG Interest Received
> 
> # Replace 31 Dec in the SET command with 31 Mar, 30 Jun and 30 Sep and
> # repeat the following REM for the other quarters.


Hello David,
Thank you for taking the time.

I was just trying to check out evaltrig() and nonomitted() but these
functions are not described on my man pages. I run Debian and I have
remind v3.01.05. I notice you have 3.1.6 on your web page but I presume
that the Debian package maintainer has not updated the man pages. Or
are these functions as recent as 3.1.6?

Without manual I'm a bit stuffed.

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Best Regards,

Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz