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Re: What happened to cal?

From Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: What happened to cal?
Date 2021-09-26 08:00 +0200
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On 26/9/21 1:46 pm, Jeremy Ardley wrote:
>
> On 26/9/21 1:24 pm, Paul M. Foster wrote:
>> Folks:
>>
>> I'm wondering if I'm mis-remembering here. As I recall, there used to 
>> be a command called "cal" which would simply print this month's 
>> calendar to the screen. It would do other calendars, depending on 
>> command line parameters. Now that I've moved to bullseye, I don't see 
>> the command nor a package containing it. There is a command "gcal" 
>> which appears to do the same thing.
>>
>> Am I missing something? Was there a separate package called "cal" 
>> which was automatically installed in earlier versions of Debian? Or 
>> was there an automatic alias to the gcal program?
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>
> I'm on buster and cal is stil there.
>
it's a link to ncal

ls -l /usr/bin/cal
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May  4  2018 /usr/bin/cal -> ncal

-- 
Jeremy

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What happened to cal? "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2021-09-26 07:50 +0200
  Re: What happened to cal? Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2021-09-26 07:50 +0200
    Re: What happened to cal? Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2021-09-26 08:00 +0200
  Re: What happened to cal? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2021-09-26 09:00 +0200
    Re: What happened to cal? "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2021-09-26 19:20 +0200
  Re: What happened to cal? Charlie <taoquester@gmail.com> - 2021-09-26 10:00 +0200
    Re: What happened to cal? Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2021-09-26 12:10 +0200
  Re: What happened to cal? Dedeco Balaco <dedeco.balaco@yahoo.com> - 2021-09-26 14:20 +0200
    Re: What happened to cal? Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2021-09-26 14:50 +0200
    Re: What happened to cal? Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2021-09-26 14:50 +0200
      Re: What happened to cal? Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2021-09-26 18:10 +0200
  Re: What happened to cal? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-26 14:40 +0200
    Re: What happened to cal? "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2021-09-26 19:10 +0200
      Re: What happened to cal? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-26 19:20 +0200
        Re: What happened to cal? "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2021-09-27 04:40 +0200
          Re: What happened to cal? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-27 04:50 +0200
      Re: What happened to cal? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-09-26 20:10 +0200
  Re: What happened to cal? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-09-27 10:00 +0200
    Re: What happened to cal? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-27 13:20 +0200
      Re: What happened to cal? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-09-27 17:00 +0200
    Re: What happened to cal? "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2021-09-27 13:50 +0200

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