Miguel de Icaza Amozurrutia

miguel@gnu.org

1998, 1999 Miguel de Icaza This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA For more details see the file COPYING in the source distribution of GNOME. The following command line options are recognized by the gnomecal program. You can use these options to alter the behaviour of the program or to quickly query the program for appointments, and to do items from the command line without requiring an X display. These are usefu for example to include in scripts. --events. Displays the events for the date specified (or today, if no date is specified). --from DATE. Define the beginning of the range for the event display, or the startup day on the calenday views. By default, the event will span the whole day specified in DATE. --to DATE. Define the range end for the event display. If this is not specified, it will default to the end of the day specified by the --from option. --file FILE. Set the calendar to the FILE specified on the command line. --todo. Dumps the to-do values to standard output. --userfile. Use this if you want to force the file to be loaded to be the default user's calendar (this is the default, only used to override the --file if you have some sort of macro. --geometry. Used to specity the startup geometry of the application (location and size). --view VIEWMODE. Use this to specify the startup view that should be used. VIEWMODE is one of: dayview, weekview, monthview, yearview. DATE is interpreted as being in the local time-zone, unless a specific timezone is specified. Examples of valid date specifications include: "1 month ago", "2 hours ago", "400000 seconds ago", "last year", "last Monday", "yesterday", "a fortnight ago", "3/31/92 10:00:07 PST", "January 23, 1987 10:05pm", "22:00 GMT". Currently, the GNOME calendar uses the vCal file format standard for storing and loading its appointment and todo database. This standard is widely used in various other calendar applications, so it provides a good mechanism for exchanging appointments. In the future the GNOME calendar will support the upcoming iCalendar specification as well. If you want to know more about the vCal specification, you can check the Internet Mail Consortium (http://www.imc.org) for the details.