On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:58:57AM -0800, Bob Crandell wrote:
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>Can the *NIX calendar be shared by multiple users? I'm looking
>for an alternative to GroupWise and Exchange. The required
>components are shared calendar and shared address book. The
>clients can be Linux or Windoze.
>
The calendar can be shared by users, provided they all have accounts on
a common machine; i've set up some calendars for volunteers at efn, for
example. Site-wide calendar files can be set up in /etc, and individual
users can set up personal calendar files; group calendars can be done
by creating a group-readable file and having the group members add a
line in their .calendar file like
#include "/path/to/file"
I suspect the average GroupWise user would find the *NIX calendar overly
spartan, in the same sense that a Windoze user would recoil from the *NIX
command line; but a more user-friendly gatewaying mechanism could probably
be found, perhaps a CGI script. EMACS, of course, can interact with it well.
(EMACS ought to be the standard office suite, anyway)
--
It says something about our society that we can afford to educate, train,
and support people to specialize in something as esoteric as "pediatric
ophthamology". And that they're experienced enough that a few glances at an
infant's eyes are all they need to determine what's wrong and what's needed to
correct it. Next person I meet who moans about "evil technology" and whines
for "the good old days" gets bitch-slapped: my son's eyes can track
together now. - dpm in SDM
