Hi Javier, You're absolutely right, I misread the man page. Thanks for spotting the real problem and double-thanks for providing a workaround! Let's close this non-bug.
Best, Sébastien. On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: | On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 08:59:14PM +0200, Sebastien Desreux wrote: | > By default, 'cal' shows weeks starting on sundays. | > In my country, the convention is to make them start on mondays. | > 'cal' provides the -M option for this. | > This option worked in Lenny. | > This option is documented in the man page of 'cal' in Squeeze. | > But in Squeeze, calling 'cal -M' produces the following error message: | | You misread the manpage, it says: | | "The cal utility displays a simple calendar in traditional format and ncal | offers an alternative layout, more options and the date of Easter." | ^^^^^^^^^^^ | > ~>cal -M | > Usage: cal [general options] [-hjy] [[month] year] | > cal [general options] [-hj] [-m month] [year] | > ncal [general options] [-bhJjpwySM] [-s country_code] [[month] year] | ^^^^ | | As you can see, the help says that the -M option is only available in 'ncal'. | | > This bug is not as benign as one might think because I'm pretty sure it will | > make me miss an appointment by 24h sooner or later... | | You can easily get what you need by either using: 'ncal -M' or (if you prefer | cal's layout instead of the new one): 'ncal -MC' | | I'm not convinced this is a bug in cal, as the 'cal' invocation is supposed | to have the same behaviour as in the original 'cal' program. | | Regards | | Javier | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
