Friday, December 4, 2009

[nslu2-linux] Suggestion for a new package -> pcal

 

Hi,

recently I missed a small, but very useful program on my NAS and unfortunately I did not found it in the ipgk list, so I compiled it by myself. But maybe other user may not go this way and need a ipkg.
It is a really simple program, compared with the programs from the wish list with no other dependencies, a small binary, a man page and some doc-files.

Homepage:
http://pcal.sourceforge.net/

PCAL is a multi-platform (Unix/Linux, DOS, DOS+DJGPP, Windows+Cygwin, Amiga) program which generates annotated PostScript or HTML calendars in a monthly or yearly format.

I use it for automatic printing my calendar events from google-calendar by a weekly cron job. This is pretty good solution for a NAS/server.
Short summary:
1) Get google calendar file in ical format with wget <Private-Link>
2) Convert it to pcal-text-file with ical2pcal.sh
3) generate a postscript calendar page for the current/next month
4) print it with cups

If anyone is interested, I can tell more details.

Linuxnutzer


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