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From: rlb@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Robert Lee Bailey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need a program to run another program at a specific time (like 'at')
Keywords: DOS program delayed execution at
Message-ID: <6278@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 16 Sep 88 04:05:52 GMT
References: <709@drexel.UUCP>
Reply-To: rlb@cs.odu.edu (Robert Lee Bailey)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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In article <709@drexel.UUCP> jeff@drexel.UUCP (Jeff White) writes:
>
>  On one of our PC's, we have a program which gets manually started every
>morning, which calls up a company, downloads some stock information, and
>then quits.  The downloaded file is then printed out. (I should mention is
>a custom program, not part of a scriptfile from a communications program.
>We would like to set up the PC so that the program starts automatically
>each weekday (weekends can be ignored if it simplifies things) at a specific
>time (say, 6:00am).  The program name just has to be typed, ie. 'bailey';
>no other parameters have to be specified.
>   Is there a public domain program that will allow this (the computer does
>have a real time clock, BTW)?  I'm not that familiar with IBM Basic, but I
>imagine I could probably write a simple program, read the time, and if it
>greater than or equal to the designated time (ie. 6:00:30 instead of just
>6:00), execute the program from within the Basic routine and then exit (and
>probably print or leave a completion message somewhere.  However, a program
>that ran in the background, occasionally checking the time, might be a bit
>nicer.  I would be interested in any recommendations you might have.

You might try AUTOMENU which is a shareware menu program.  It has a
facility which allows for automatic execution of any program at some
specified time.  The syntax is very similar to using a standard .BAT
file, so anything that you can do in a .BAT file can be done using
AUTOMENU to allow execution at the specified time.  I'm not sure
that it will activate if another program is already running, but, I
believe that it will execute as soon as you exit the other program
(that is assuming that the specified time has been passed).

		Bob Bailey