Re: Lotus calander
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:15:40PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Monday, May 21 at 10:52 AM, quoth Brian Salter-Duke:
> > Has anyone developed a script or other tool that will make *.ics files,
> > which I think are Lotus calander files, properly readable in plain text
> > so I could use it in auto_view in mutt? The file I just received is text
> > but I could not figure out where and how formatted the date and time
> > information was. So I know about a meeting and I know where, but I do
> > not know when!
>
> I believe it's an iCal file, actually (i.e. an invitation). If so, its
> format is defined by RFC 2445 (Apple didn't invent it):
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2445
>
> Here's the Apple document on the subject:
> http://developer.apple.com/internet/appleapplications/icalendarfiles.html
>
> There's a perl module for handling them (Net::ICal), and a couple
> other useful projects (search Freshmeat.net for "icalendar").
Thanks for that information. I had noticed the perl module, but hoped
someone had used it to write a script to handle these files under
auto_view. I'll see if I can write on and report back.
Brian.
> ~Kyle
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