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Is the app actually just called "Calendar"? A quick Google didn't turn up much (some other calendars maybe, but not anything just called 'Calendar'). Can you provide a link to the sources? If you're just looking for any calendar, there are some PIM apps included with 12.1 (especially if you use KDE), but none of the popular repositories had anything called Calendar. Maybe I'm just daft and search-impaired, but I couldn't find anything.
The only place I've seen calendar is on a VAX machine. It's a program like what is found in outlook, but more primitive from the early days of Unix. I was disappointed to find in my early days of trying linux it was not on the system. I have not tried searching for a replacement.
Okay, I took a few minutes to download the bsdutils sources from debian and separated the calendar(version 1.9) sources from the rest into a separate tarball. I made a few changes to the Makefile and included the freebsd.h and modified README file in the tarball. The archive also contains a calendar.19.diff file which reflects all the changes made. I also created a LICENSE file from the license information at the top of the calendar.c file.
You may prefer to use these sources to avoid overwriting any existing slackware files. There is also a binary Slackware package of the program in the same directory, but it was compiled on Slackware-11.0. I suspect that it will work for you, but if not, you can always compile and install the program from the sources.
The original bsdmainutils sources are also there under 'Resources' for reference.
In order to use the program, you need to create a directory '.calendar' in your $HOME directory (~/.calendar). Then copy the file /usr/share/calendar/default into the ~/.calendar directory and rename it to 'calendar'. Edit to suit your tastes.
Cheers!
Aha, I can't thank you enough for this. Truly, this seemingly simple obstacle was seeming insurmountable. I could not even find sources for Calendar.
Having minor difficulties getting it to work as expected, trying to get it to execute properly from /etc/profile, but it does work as expected running it manually. Just gotta tweak my profile someway or other.
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