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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
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- Subject: Re: Where is EXECUTIVE?
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 05:07:59
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- Scott Piercy (spiercy@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
- : Where can I find Executive.
- :
- : Sounds like it's exactly what I need to automate my USENET news!!!!
-
- Um, are you serious? Executive is a task sheduler / system monitor; how do
- you expect it to help you with Usenet?
-
- Perhaps you misunderstand the meaning of the word "sheduler" - in this case it
- means that the program controls the priority of processes, such that processor
- time is more appropriately shared amongst them.
-
- It is NOT a program for setting up the timed execution of certain programs -
- for that you need something like UNIX's cron, of which there are numerous
- examples on Aminet:
- AmiCron.lha util/cli 24K 405+An program like UNIX "cron".
- ctask11.lha util/cli 55K 69+V1.10, Cron utility with nice GUI Prefs.
- CyberCron15.lha util/time 78K 176+Schedule jobs at specific times.
- EZCron.lha util/time 53K 5+V1.62 of UN*X like Cron with E-Z to use
- TimeGuardian.lha util/time 606K 56+Ultimate Cron/Reminder/Time Counter 1.2a
- TPTCron.lha util/time 32K 184 Executes jobs repeatedly at given times
-
- Note that the oldest of these is nearly 8 years old. You don't want that one ;)
-
- If Executive is still of interest to you, you can find it on Aminet as well:
- Executive.lha util/misc 527K 13+UNIX-like task scheduler (V1.30)
-
- -- Mat.
-