atfile
This program is a small utility that helps keep track of future dates. It would be difficult to achieve the same with cron or at alone hence a new program.
The main purpose of atfile is to send mail when a date
is due. When it is run each morning you'll see important dates you
may have forgotton early.
To achieve this the program looks for a file in
~/etc/atfile that matches the current date and may have
an arbitrary appendix. Such atfiles may contain a Subject:, From: and
To: line to control how and where the mail is sent. By using an
appendix it is possible to have several concurring dates on a day.
If you want to get a reminder a few days before the real date, just
create a hardlink with a different date. The atfile will be removed
once it has been processed.
CVS.