Can iCal send details of appointments as text messages?

Hi everyone, I am not sure if this is the appropriate place to ask, if not, please direct me to where this would be more appropriate.
I have been asked to provide a mac based solution for a client who uses mac mini and iPad as part of his business. He books clients (they are all one off clients, no repeats) using iCal and he wants to send the details of the appointment to the client as a reminder 24 hours before the appointment is due. Is there any way I can get iCal (or indeed any application for mac or iPad) to do this? Keeping in mind, he wants the reminder message sent to his client, not to himself, as obviously he can look at his own calendar to remind himself when/where appointments are taking place.
Thank you all.

Hi,
It would be possible by using the iCal 'Run Script' alarm type. You'd set an Applescript to send the SMS. From Googling, there appears to be some options to do this, see: http://www.smsmac.com/help/discover/applescript/ , http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=34525 (for this one, you'd need the recipients phone email address), http://network-heretics.com/blog/?p=26 , http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=32933 (using Skype). Your main problem will be how to get the info from iCal, the third link here uses a variant of ones I have used to find the event details. IMO it would depend what your client has set up already as to what would be most useful.
Best wishes
John M

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