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- QBATCH .. a queued batch processing system for UNIX
-
- The QBATCH system and its related programs were
- written by Alan D. Saunders and are
- Copyright (c) Vita Services Ltd. 1990 and
- Copyright (c) Vita Fibres Ltd. 1991
-
- PLEASE read the NOTICE file for details.
-
- QBATCH was written to overcome the limitations of the UNIX at and batch
- commands where there is a need for potentially several job queues
- containing jobs to be processed in a specific order. On some versions
- of UNIX, it is possible to gain this effect by utilising the print
- spooling system. QBATCH provides a portable, consistent method of
- achieving this object on all flavours of UNIX (I hope).
-
- For details of what QBATCH is, and the related programs, please read
- the DESCRIPTION file and the documents in the doc directory.
- Corresponding man pages are available in the man directory. The
- 'qbatch' document (and man page) gives an overview of QBATCH, and a
- brief description of the programs and files involved. Each is described
- in more detail in a separate document (and man page).
-
- For details of the terms and conditions for the use and distribution of
- QBATCH please read the NOTICE file which accompanies this
- distribution. NOTE: You are bound to read and accept the contents of
- this NOTICE file as a condition of the right to distribute, port and
- use QBATCH.
-
- My only access to the net is through tharr PUBLIC access to Unix and it
- is through their courtesy and generosity that QBATCH may be distributed
- to you.
-
- QBATCH is my first posting to the net at large, and as it was
- originally written for my own purposes, it may be found to be a little
- 'raw', If so I apologise and ask you to bear with me and (gently)
- correct me in my ways. -- Alan
-
- QBATCH was originally written on a SUN SPARCstation under SunOS 4.03,
- and has migrated through SunOS 4.1. It is now running in live systems
- under SunOS 4.1 and 4.1.1 on SPARCstation and SPARCserver 4/330's. It
- was written as far as possible using X-OPEN (tm) guidelines according
- to XPG3, and using SunOS's system V programming environment. I don't
- therefore expect too many major problems porting it to other
- environments.
-
- I wrote QBATCH to suit my own requirements under SunOS, and having no
- access to other environments or architectures, have made no provision
- in configuration files, sources or makefiles, for porting to other
- environments or architectures.
-
- 30 Aug 1991 .. Latest version has a degree of configuration for
- different platforms. see NEWS for details.
-
- Please therefore feel free to make such configuration modifications as
- you feel necessary to get it to work in your environment, but please
- also make sure I get a copy of all changes so that I can include them
- in the distribution for the benefit of others.
-
- The programs may be installed in any directory accessible through the
- PATH environment variable. They will be installed by the Makefile in
- the defined BINDIR.
-
-
- Enjoy ... Alan Saunders (July 23 1991)
- (Aug 30 1991)
- I may be contacted at home (Snail mail)
-
- 1341 Rochdale Road, Blackley, Manchester, M9 2FG, United Kingdom.
-
- or alan@tharr.uucp
-