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From: nic@marque.mu.edu (Nic Bernstein)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Wmgr .vs. Cron
Keywords: wmgr cron
Message-ID: <1981@marque.mu.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 88 12:52:38 GMT
References: <30@tarkus.UUCP>
Reply-To: nic@marque.UUCP (Nic Bernstein)
Organization: Marquette University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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In article <30@tarkus.UUCP> jcs@tarkus.UUCP (John C. Sucilla) writes:
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>What's the story on wmgr and cron? I've heard that wmgr handles the
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>cron functions on the Unix-pc so is there any reason to fire up cron?
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>-- 
>						John "C". Sucilla
>						ihnp4!tarkus!jcs

No it's "smgr" that provides cron's functionality, it also posts the time
at the top of your screen and is responsible for the "disk almost full"
messages which, before 3.51, would flash a window up while you were
typing and divert your output, a real nuisance.  Fortunately, this was
changed to just display an empty/full icon like your car's gas guage.
						- Nic