Re: Is there a calendar program for RasPiOS ?

On 10/03/2025 22:46, Jonathan B. Horen wrote:

On 3/10/25 17:45, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:11:18 -0000 (UTC), bp wrote:
>

Is there something equivalent to the cal program found in FreeBSD
for RasPiOS?

>
Took me about two minutes to find this
<https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/ncal>:
>
     This package contains the "ncal" program and the traditional "cal"
     program, both are commonly found on BSD-style systems. This
     utility displays a simple calendar in a traditional or an
     alternative and more advanced layout, and the date of Easter.

 Out-of-the-box "ncal" gives a weird (to me) *vertically-oriented* output:
 

$ cal
      March 2025
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
                    1
  2  3  4  5  6  7  8
  9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31
So use cal instead

     March 2025
Mo     3 10 17 24 31
Tu     4 11 18 25
We     5 12 19 26
Th     6 13 20 27
Fr     7 14 21 28
Sa  1  8 15 22 29
Su  2  9 16 23 30
 I prefer the traditional, horizontally-aligned presentation ("ncal -b"):
       March 2025
Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
                 1  2
  3  4  5  6  7  8  9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31
 

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