On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 13:27:15 -0700 Michael wrote: > ooooo.... I just thought of something.... would message of the day > work here? probably not. it is meant to give a system-wide message to those who login. you can put the date/time and a message that goes with it, and then write a script that prints to the screen, at the time specified. (make it a cron job that wakes up every 5 minutes and checks to see if the date/time is within the next 5 minutes, and if not then exit) I've written something similar in perl. What mine does is to send me a mail at work at 2PM for anything that is for that specific day. It could be adapted to do what you want. Jerry > > On Sunday 23 April 2006 13:12, Michael wrote: > > I HATE missing appointments! Is there a tool that will pop a > > reminder up onto a terminal emulator? > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Hobbit Name: Pimpernel Loamsdown Registered Linux User: 275424 This email's random fortune: ... the MYSTERIANS are in here with my CORDUROY SOAP DISH!! --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss