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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Archiving Source-Related Postings
Message-ID: <1349@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 31 Mar 89 12:20:56 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>BTW: A neat way to have a script re-schedule itself (when you don't
>have access to crontab or Sun OS 4.0) is:
>
>case `date +%a` in

If you don't have access to "crontab" or to a system that provides
per-user "crontabs" (it's not a Sun invention; it comes from the S5R2
"cron", so most S5 systems have it), you may well not have a "date"
command that accepts format strings, either; for example, 4.xBSD, as
distributed by Berkeley, has neither, at present. 

It is, of course, trivial to write a "day of the week" program that
coughs up the current day of the week; the trick in question can be used
once you've written such a program.