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Re: Publishing iCal Calendar

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For your reference, records indicate that 
csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) wrote:

> I'm really confused now. The calendar on one of my computers is by
> definition the current calendar. (At the moment, it is the only
> calendar.) If I last edited it a week ago, it is still the current
> calendar. It doesn't cease to be current just because I haven't added
> any new entries since last week.

You’re not thinking about the problem from a technology perspective.  If 
you want two computers to agree on the concept of “current”, they have 
to communicate in some fashion.  They can either do that constantly, or 
you can agree that there is some acceptable delay.  The choice you make 
*greatly* determines the different types of solutions you have available 
to you.

> I'll try an analogy. I have a number of Word files containing useful
> information. If I'm on the "other" computer and want to look at the
> information in one of these files, I simply connect the two computers
> over my local network, locate the file, and open in in Word on the
> "other" computer. Violà! I can read everything in the file. This is the
> capability I'm looking for.
> 
> It sounds like that can't be done with an iCal calendar. Strange.

Not really.  The difference is that a Word file is a Word file, but an 
iCalendar file is what Calendar *exports* to share it’s internal 
calendar database.  The same is true for apps like Mail; there is an 
underlying MIME file format that gets exchanged , but you don’t deal 
with any *files* at all (unless you export a message).

So, again, the answer comes down to what you really want to do.  If you 
want constant communication between multiple machines, you’ll probably 
need to have an account on a CalDAV server to do it (just like you need 
an IMAP account to do the same sort of thing with Mail).  If you really 
just want to have a file that is available after you make changes to a 
calendar, you either manually export it or figure out a good way to do 
that automatically (via AppleScript or Automator).

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                Re: Publishing iCal Calendar Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-04-17 19:03 +0000
                Re: Publishing iCal Calendar csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2016-04-18 00:39 -0700
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