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From: theall@rm105serve.sas.upenn.edu (George A. Theall)
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Subject: Re: SUMMARY:  cron for MS-DOS
Summary: Yes, one exists
Keywords: cron, shareware
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Date: 8 Jan 91 13:29:23 GMT
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In article <365@cti1.UUCP> mpledger@cti1.UUCP (Mark Pledger) writes:
>>Does anyone know of a PD program similar to crontab that runs under
>>MS-DOS?  If so could they please tell me where I can get it, either
>>through ftp or a BBS.
...
>SUMMARY:
>
>From the few responses I got, I gather there is no program which emulates
>cron for an MS-DOS machine.  I am therefore going to write my own.  I

   (I guess you never got the mail I sent.) Yes, there is a version of 
cron for DOS. It's a shareware package written by Tron Hvaring from way
up north in Narvik Norway (beautiful place, btw). The author claims it
implements all the features of cron under unix that "make sense" under
DOS. 

   I got my copy from SATALINK bbs (+1 215 364 3324) rather recently. I
see it hasn't made it to SIMTEL yet. If there's enough demand for it,
I'll contact Keith and arrange to upload it there. (Of course, if you
want to knock yourself out and write your own, go right ahead. :-)


George
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