MHC -- Message Harmonized Calendaring system.

                        Yoshinari Nomura

Created: 1999-09-01
Revised: 2010-08-07

** DESCRIPTION:

MHC is designed to help those who receive most appointments via email.
Using MHC, you can easily import schedule articles from emails.

You can get the latest version from:
 http://www.quickhack.net/mhc/

MHC has following features:

+ Easy import your schedule from email articles.
  Using with Mew/Gnus/Wanderlust (MUAs on Emacs),
  you can easily compose your schedule items from
  appoint-emails. MHC will guess the title,
  date, time and description by scanning the email.

+ Simple data structure allows you to manipulate stored data in many ways.
+ Both UNIX and Windows support.
+ Appointments can be made to repeat in flexible ways.
+ powerful but simple expression of appointments.
  Each appointment can have following attributes:

    date, subject, start/end time(not mandatory),
    advance time of alarm,
    multiple categories,
    recurrence rules,
    duration of the recurrence,
    list of exception dates,
    list of extra dates
    description.

+ Multiple user interfaces such as commandline/emacs/GUI/Web.
  MHC currently has following interfaces:

    + Elisp package cooperative with  Mew, Wanderlust or Gnus
        (popular MUA in the Emacs world)
        (emacs/mhc.el)
    + GUI (Ruby/Gtk based) desktop calendar application. (gemcal)
    + CGI based Web interface
        (not in this package please see http://mhc.hauN.org/web-mhc/)
    + Command line schedule lister like the scan of MH. (today)

MHC stores schedule articles in the same form of MH; you can manipulate
these messages not only by above tools but also by many other MUAs,
editors, UNIX commandline tools or your own scripts.

** SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

MHC is supposed to work on systems which has

gemcal        -- Ruby + ruby-gtk
mhc-sync      -- Ruby + ssh
palm2mhc      -- Ruby + pilot-link library (libpisock)
mhc2palm      -- Ruby + pilot-link library (libpisock)
today         -- Ruby
mhc.el        -- Environments which Mew (1.94 or later)
                 or Wanderlust (ver 2.2.10 or later) or
                 Gnus or cmail supports.

** INSTALL:

Sorry, I've not written a precise document yet.

Edit emacs/Makefile and type make in emacs/ directory to install mhc.el.
For Ruby stuffs, type:

  ruby configure.rb
  ruby make.rb
  ruby make.rb install

if you don't need Palm support, try:

  ruby configure.rb --disable-palm

** FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Please visit our site:
  http://www.quickhack.net/mhc/