SYNOPSIS

mencal [options] [file1 file2 ... -c CONF1 -c CONF2 ...]

DESCRIPTION

Display options:

-m, --monday

draw monday as first weekday (sunday is default)

-1

current month (default)

-3

previous, current and next month

-y [YYYY]

all-year calendar (default YYYY is current year)

-q, --quiet

no top information will be printed

-n, --nocolor

noncolored output

-i, --icolor COLOR

intersection color (default red)

  • available colors: red, green, blue, yellow, violet, cyan, shiny, bold

mencal configuration:

-c, --config

s=[YYYY]MMDD,l=LL,d=DD,n=NAME,f=FILE,c=COLOR

  • The second argument is a comma separated list of options. No spaces are allowed in this list. If no name is specified, 'Unknown' is used. Various -c options or filenames can be set.

s,start=[YYYY]MMDD

start day of period (default current day)

l,length=LL

length of period in days (default 28)

d,duration=D

duration of menstruation in days (default 4)

n,name=NAME

name of subject

f,file=FILE

filename to save configuration to (see section FILES)

  • only menstruation related variables will be saved

c,color=COLOR

color used for menstruation days

  • available colors: red, green, blue, yellow, violet, cyan, shiny, bold default color is red, with '-n' switch color settings are ignored

Info options:

-h, --help

print help

-V, --version

print version information

FILES:

$HOME/.mencalrc - the default configuration file that is automatically loaded

AUTHOR:

(C) 2002 C. McCohy

e-mail: <[email protected]>

Word-Wide-Web: http://www.kyberdigi.cz/projects/mencal/english

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page (but may be used by others).

HISTORY

22 March 2002 - Originally written by Amaya Rodrigo <[email protected]>.

24 Apr 2002 - New manpage contributed by Pablo S. Torralba <[email protected]>.

Amaya Rodrigo <[email protected]> is now responsible for developing and maintaining this manual page. Comments and suggestions are greatly wellcome.