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1.\" @(#)cal.1 4.1 (Berkeley) %G%
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3.TH CAL 1
4.AT 3
5.SH NAME
6cal \- print calendar
7.SH SYNOPSIS
8.B cal
9[ month ] year
10.SH DESCRIPTION
11.I Cal
12prints a calendar for the specified year.
13If a month is also specified, a calendar
14just for that month is printed.
15.I Year
16can be between 1
17and 9999.
18The
19.I month
20is a number between 1 and 12.
21The calendar
22produced is that for England and her colonies.
23.PP
24Try September 1752.
25.SH BUGS
26The year is always considered to start in January even though this
27is historically naive.
28.br
29Beware that `cal 78' refers to the early Christian era,
30not the 20th century.