[Remind-Fans] Need more text per event re: Remind fan

[Dianne Skoll]

Hi,

I'd ask list posters to please avoid posting HTML and use plain-text only.
Thanks!

On Tue, 11 May 2021 07:23:46 -0400
LarryD <l.f.durfee at ieee.org> wrote:

> I have been trying to find a way to attach a file (at least text
> only) to any "REM" I add. The reason for the additional file is that
> I often need more information about an event.

Remind doesn't limit the length of an input line, so if you want
to put a megabyte of text after the MSG part of a reminder, Remind will
handle it just fine.  You can use \ to continue a logical line over
multiple physical lines; I've used MSF rather than MSG to make Remind
format the text as a paragraph:

REM MSF This is a very long piece of text. \
In fact, it's an entire paragraph. \
Note that you can have as much as you want here \
because Remind will keep reading input for \
a line until it runs out of memory, which on \
modern computers is likely to be an awful lot \
of text!

Another option would be the shell() function:

REM MSF [shell("cat /path/to/file.txt", -1)]

Again, MSF makes Remind reformat it as a paragraph.

Regards,

Dianne.