[Evolution] "offline" calendar lookup?

[Rodrigo Moya]

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 17:26 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> %% Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo@ximian.com> writes:
> 
> Thanks for the response Rodrigo!
> 
>   rm> On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 16:19 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
>   >> Is there some kind of text-based way to retrieve the calendar from
>   >> Evolution?  At least today's appointments?  Or, can Evo email them to me
>   >> each night or something?
> 
> (I realize this must sound weird to some: if I can read my mail why
> can't I just look at my calendar?  Well, I have to confess that for the
> moment I'm not reading my mail with Evo.  Actually I'm reading part of
> my mail with Evo and part with my old standby, Emacs VM.  At some point
> over this year I will probably move all the way to Evo.  The reason for
> this strangeness is exactly what you'd expect: it's all Microsoft's
> fault! :))
> 
>   rm> you can write a simple program that does that, mailing you the
>   rm> events for a given day. You just need to use the splitted
>   rm> evolution-data-server module.
> 
>   rm> Not sure if this could be integrated in the Evolution GUI in some way.
> 
> I don't even care about the GUI integration, I'm very happy to run some
> command line tool that just dumps my appointments for today to stdout.
> 
> But, it sounds like this is only available in CVS Evo.  I need to be
> using 1.4.x (currently I'm using 1.4.5).  Any help for me?
> 
for 1.4, you can still use libcal-client, which offers the interface to
the calendar data.

cheers