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From: dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: DCRON
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Date: 23 Dec 88 03:36:14 GMT
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	I just sent DCRON off to the moderator.  It has been extensively
tested.  It requires the recently posted NULL: device to work (a NULL: binary
will be packaged with it).

	DCRON solves the world's problems.  It is crontab file compatible with
AmiCron (I looked at AmiCron as a reference, then wrote DCRON about from 
scratch).  The major feature is that it does not scan the file every minute,
but calculates how long it must wait till the next scan.  (A further refinement
would be to read in the file into memory and not scan it at all from disk
unless it was modified, but unless you do something every minute the extra
memory taken up may not be worth it).  It is generally intelligent about most
things.

	Credit to Rick Schaeffer and his AmigaCron, whos source I skimmed
before writing this.

					-Matt

P.S. I lied when I said DCRON solves the world's problems.