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Re: ical calendar program

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Fri Nov 8 15:51:58 1996

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Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 15:34:05 -0500
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Kyle Ferrio writes:
>On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Guoqiang Lu wrote:
>> I get the message: Can't save to file ./.calendar  when running ical 
>> in Redhat 4.0. Any fix for this? Thanks.
>
>I get this, too.  It makes Ical unusable.  I even 'touched' an .calendar 
>file to no avail.  How does one get this beatie to work?  This is the 
>first calendar program I've seen that I might actually like using.

Unfortunately, ical seems to forget to expand ~/ properly.  It's on the
bug list...

The workaround is to invoke it with the -calendar option, like this:
ical -calendar ~/.calendar
The *shell* will interpret the ~/ this way, and it should work.

michaelkjohnson

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