One, largely undocumented, trick that I have discovered is that, if one places a calendar where it is accessible from the web, say:

http://www.mchschool.org/~sbattis/1to1workshops1011

that one can then cause FirstClass to generate an iCalendar feed for that calendar by appending the following GET parameters to the URL:

http://www.mchschool.org/~sbattis/1to1workshops1011?plugin=ical&leaves

Clicking this link will either download an iCalendar file or offer to subscribe you to this calendar, depending on your browser settings — right-clicking will allow you to copy-and-paste this link into your Calendar reader’s subscription settings. In fact, with some tinkering, it turns out that the calendar can be in a secured directory and the username and password can be sent through as part of the URL (in a format that I thought I had seen the last of with the decline of Gopher servers):

http://sbattis:supersekretpassword@www.mschschool.org/~sbattis/1to1workshops1011?plugin=ical&leaves

(Nota bene: the above username and password are fake and won’t work — thereby rendering the link inoperable. But you get the idea.)

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