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		2 points by christopherwxyz on Oct 24, 2018 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment
		Does anyone know the history of /usr/share/calendar? Seems fairly odd these files exist on our drive.

pjc50 on Oct 24, 2018 [–]

Part of bsdmainutils: https://github.com/pexip/os-bsdmainutils

I believe that, like "fortune", the intent was to provide useful/interesting info on login. The country-specific ones are more useful: https://github.com/pexip/os-bsdmainutils/blob/master/debian/...

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