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From: tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael Zehr)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Resident AST's
Message-ID: <3334@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: 29 Feb 88 16:33:49 GMT
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Reply-To: tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael Zehr)
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Summary: Poor man's solution


[question about how to have an AST perform I/O every 10 minutes to
prevent a user from being logged out]

I don't know the answer to your problem, but I hacked a cheap solution to
a similar problem once.  Write a short .COM file that waits 10 minutes, 
and then types a short file, and loops until Ctrl-Y is typed.  I realize
the user has to stop the application he's running and execute a COM file
to do this, but it's easier than having to log in again.  Hope this helps,
and my apologies if you've thought of this and discarded it as not useful.


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michael j zehr
"My opinions are my own ... as is my spelling."