ical is a Tcl/Tk based calendar/reminder application. It is quite popular with PDA users, since its storage format is generally compatible with other applications.
Sanjay Ghenamawat, ical's author, is "no longer developing ical", in his own words. His last release was 2.2a [L1 ].
Information about ical was at one point accessible from http://clef.lcs.mit.edu/%7Esanjay/ical.html .
Two mailing lists have been set up for ical-related information. Ical is a calendar application written using the Tk toolkit.
To subscribe, send mail to either mailto:[email protected] or mailto:[email protected] .
mailto:[email protected] consists of new announcments about the source code (including beta releases), and other announcements of high interest to ical installers/users/hackers. The traffic on this list should be fairly low.
mailto:[email protected] is a list used for general discussion about ical. Mail sent to "ical-announce" will be automatically forwarded here, so you do not have to subscribe to both lists.
What: ical - a calendar manager
Where: http://filewatcher.org/file_i/617850/ical.html
http://www.jp.netbsd.org/ja/JP/Documentation/Packages/list/time/ical/README.html
http://www.freebsd.org/ports/deskutils.html
http://sf.net/projects/syncal/
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/dockes/ical/
Description: A calendar application - previously required InterViews
libraries but now uses only tk. Designed for Tcl 7/Tk 3.3.
This is implemented as a set of date management extensions and a
Tcl/Tk interpreter. Also contains a class system with methods for Tcl.
V2.x requires a C++ compiler, Tcl 7.4 and Tk 4.0 or later.
See the freebsd site for v2.2 of ical.
Syncal is a program to synchronize your ical with
a Palm Pilot date book.
A patched version of ical 2.2.1a that should build on Tcl 8.3 and
newer versions was made available several times in the past for
people to mirror; I unfortunately am unaware of any specific
location for ical-2.2.1a.tar.gz .
At the wanadoo site, find a port of ical 2.2 to Windows.
Author no longer provides support for this tool.
Updated: 05/2002
Contact: UnknownI was the next-to-last maintainer for Ical. I created the ical-2.2.1a patch. That said, I would encourage somebody to rewrite Ical as a pure Tcl/Tk application. It has a well developed interface and is a useful application. Given Richard's calendar widget it would be a trivial rewrite. Rewrite should be based on the interface, not the old code. -Sluggo