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From: dgl292@pallas.athenanet.com (Doug Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: EVERY11: A useful timer utility (Part 01/01)
Summary: Another way to do it
Message-ID: <332@pallas.athenanet.com>
Date: 11 Apr 90 00:06:58 GMT
References: <1990Apr7.173924.8132@actrix.co.nz>
Reply-To: dgl292@pallas.UUCP (Doug Lee)
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In article <1990Apr7.173924.8132@actrix.co.nz> clear@actrix.co.nz (Charlie Lear) writes:
>I tried looking and asking everywhere for a program that would allow me
>to run my polling batch file every so often, but nobody had heard of a
>DOS utility that did it easily.  Conrad Bullock suggested some Pascal
>code, and after a bit of hacking EVERY11.ZIP was created.

There is a program available on many BBSs (and, probably, on Simtel20)
called `at', which can be told to execute a job at a given time or within
a given amount of elapsed time.  Its advantage is that it allows you to use
your machine in the mean time, executing the command(s) at the appropriate
time(s) or the next time a DOS prompt appears thereafter.

My solution to this problem, therefore, is to write a BAT file which calls
my program--which can be another BAT file if you use a recent enough DOS to
have the CALL command at your disposal--and then reschedules itself.  The `at'
program is a TSR and can run on any MSDOS machine as far as I know. .
Corrections from the net are welcomed.

Doug Lee    (dgl292@athenanet.com or uunet!pallas!dgl292)