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From: schow@bcarh185.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: PC 'cron'-like TSR (?) program
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Date: 4 Jan 91 18:44:52 GMT
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In article <628@tessi.UUCP> steve@tessi.uucp (Steve Willoughby) writes:
>I need to find a DOS program which does something similar to the UNIX 'cron'
>or 'at' commands... namely, wait until a specified time and then run a given
>program.  This program should ideally be a TSR that contains just enough 
>code to wait for a certain time of day and then fire up an application,
>wait for it to finish running, and then go dormant again.

PC-Tools handles this very well. [My standard plug: PC-Tools is the best buy
in PC utility. It does everything for very little money.] In this case, the
PC-Tools "DeskTop" has a scheduler application. It works like a appointment
book and you can run programs at specified times. They give extensive examples
for running backup at night. I have not actually used this aspect of it.

My only relation with Central Point Software is that I am a satisfied customer
of long standing.


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