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From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: First monday of the month (was Re: v23i028:  A cron/crontab replacement, Part01/01)
Message-ID: <8085@gollum.twg.com>
Date: 14 Oct 90 18:30:09 GMT
References: <2878@litchi.bbn.com> <49594@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> <8083@gollum.twg.com> <1990Oct14.065042.16216@iwarp.intel.com>
Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <1990Oct14.065042.16216@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
>In article <8083@gollum.twg.com>, david@twg (David S. Herron) writes:
>| The "nth monday of the month" class of specification would be a
>| very good addition.
>
>Arrgghhghgh!  This was hashed, rehashed, and overhashed in
>comp.unix.wizards (back when there *was* one).

Ah .. it wasn't obvious that cron ever offered that ability.  In any
case I stopped reading unix-wizards many years ago because 1) I ran out
of time and 2) it stopped being interesting.

And it wouldn't have helped me with the problem I mentioned at AT&T
since it's one of those "broken" versions of Unix ...

>Just another UNIX hacker since the V6 days,

yeh.. me too..


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