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From: doerschu@rex.cs.tulane.edu (David Doerschuk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Timed program execution on PC's?
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Date: 14 Feb 90 18:53:55 GMT
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>In article <974@sl10c.concurrent.co.uk>, tjr@concurrent.co.uk (Tim Rapley) writes:
>> Does anyone know of an MS-DOS equivalent of the Unix cron that
>> would allow me to time the execution of other PC software (e.g.
>> activate backup utilities etc in the middle of the night when
>> I'm not around.

You may want to try getting the file:  DOAT.ARC from Simtel20 in the
PD1:<MSDOS.SYSUTL> directory.  Its small, and the description is:
"Execute command at specified time".  I've got it, and I think it
would probably do the job for you.  If you can't get into simtel or
one of the mirror sites, email me and I'll email you back a UUEncoded
copy of the archive.
Dave.
doerschu@rex.cs.tulane.edu