Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jonathan B. Horen" Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi Subject: Re: Is there a calendar program for RasPiOS ? Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:46:25 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:46:26 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d6a2a561d20e0fbdf01cdb18d5aaeea5"; logging-data="1675855"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19N2LOC7PhNQnl3ZsQbxG/O" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:1QWI41VfCIAexjYnyFOY6NGlRUk= Content-Language: en-US, he, he-IL In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2201 On 3/10/25 17:45, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:11:18 -0000 (UTC), bp wrote: > >> Is there something equivalent to the cal program found in FreeBSD >> for RasPiOS? > > Took me about two minutes to find this > : > > This package contains the "ncal" program and the traditional "cal" > program, both are commonly found on BSD-style systems. This > utility displays a simple calendar in a traditional or an > alternative and more advanced layout, and the date of Easter. Out-of-the-box "ncal" gives a weird (to me) *vertically-oriented* output: March 2025 Mo 3 10 17 24 31 Tu 4 11 18 25 We 5 12 19 26 Th 6 13 20 27 Fr 7 14 21 28 Sa 1 8 15 22 29 Su 2 9 16 23 30 I prefer the traditional, horizontally-aligned presentation ("ncal -b"): March 2025 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 -- You can have everything, and still not have enough. I'd give it all up, for just a little more.