Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsj!mec
From: mec@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (michael.e.connick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Multifinder Scheduler
Message-ID: <4052@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>
Date: 2 Mar 90 14:47:27 GMT
References: <9353@wpi.wpi.edu>
Reply-To: mec@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (michael.e.connick,mt,)
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In article <9353@wpi.wpi.edu> macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Christopher Silverberg) writes:
> This summer I would like to do a few things. 
>   A) Leave my computer on all day and night
>   B) Use Copernicus (a point mail system for the mac) nightly
>   C) Check AOL for any mail waiting, and post written mail nightly
> 
> I have 2.5 megs, and i always use Multifinder. So what i'll need is some sort
> of scheduling program that is able to launch Copernicus at a certain time.
> Then later on in the night, i need it to quite Copernicus, and launch the
> AOL software. Any good suggestions? recommendations? Thanks

Well as I'm sure you already know, getting Copernicus to automatically
launch at a specified time is already a feature of the product. You
just need to select the "Wait for Event" menu item and it will
automatically call your Fidonet Boss system at the time you specified
in the installation.

Adding the AOL program to this event shouldn't be that difficult. The
only hitch is the fact that AOL doesn't support the "Tabby
Event-compatible" program launching mechanism that's used in
Copernicus. So the AOL program won't be able to launch any programs
after itself. You can, however, just put AOL in as the LAST program in
your normal "Call Boss" event. Then after Copernicus is done
communicating with the Boss system, it will launch AOL. The file in
Copernicus that controls which programs are launched during the normal
Boss event is called "Call Boss" and is located in the "Common
Folder". The file contains a single record listing the programs to be
run with a comma delimiting each name from the other. Just make sure
that AOL is in the same folder as the Copernicus programs and include
it as the last program in the record.

BTW, all of this will work whether you're running under Finder or
MultiFinder.

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Michael Connick    mec@mtfmi.ATT.COM    201-957-3057
AT&T Bell Labs     MT 3F-113	        (Dept. 79151)