[Remind-Fans] getting desktop popups on different systems

[Simon Ruderich]

On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 02:45:29AM -0500, tamouse mailing lists wrote:
> I don't think this went through the first time....

CCed to be sure you get it, normally not a good idea.

David already answered:

On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 02:08:55PM -0400, David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 12:49:29 -0500
> tamouse mailing lists wrote:
>
>> I'd like to be able to have a conditional that determines which OS
>> is running (possibly by querying uname) and set the program in the
>> reminder file itself. Any suggestions as to how I might do this?
>
> Wouldn't it be easier to write a little shell script called
> "popup-reminder" or something and have that call the appropriate
> program on each system?  The Linux "popup-reminder" would call the Linux
> program and the Mac OS one would call the Mac OS program.
>
> Then in your Reminders file, you just use:
>
> REM ... RUN /usr/local/bin/popup-reminder ...
>
> Regards,
> David.

Regards,
Simon
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