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READ.ME for CRON16.ZIP 20-Jan-1991
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1. NEW FEATURES
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1.1 Escaped characters in commands
Some commands require ';' characters on the command line. This is
particularly true for utilities such as the MKS Toolkit, PolyShell or
other UNIX environment lookalikes. When CRON sees a '\' character in
a CRONTAB entry, it will process the next character literally even if
it is a '!', a '~' or a ';'.
Because of this, CRONTABS where commands contain path names with '\'
characters must be converted by replacing all '\' characters with two
backslashes, i.e.
D:\DIR\SUBDIR
should become
D:\\DIR\\SUBDIR
everywhere.
This is trivially accomplished with a text editor.
1.2 CRONDV.EXE
This is a DESQview specific version of CRON. It refuses to start outside
DESQview. CRONDV starts programs inside DESQview in their own windows,
just as if they were started by the Open Window option on the DESQview
menu. See chapter 7.5 of CRON.DOC for details.
2. CHANGES IN V1.6
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2.1 Command line options
The programs that use the log file (i.e. CRON.EXE, CRONDV.EXE and
LOGCHECK.EXE) now support two different options for locking the
logfile.
command-line option -L now attempts to lock the log file
unconditionally. Useful with SHARE.EXE in multitasking
environments with no network. If a locking operation fails,
logging and verbose modes are switched off and a timestamped
error message is written to stderr.
command-line option -l (letter ell) works as -L in previous
versions, i.e. it will only attempt to lock logfiles on a remote
(server) machine.
2.2 New files in CRON16.ZIP
CRONTAB.DV - this is a new sample crontab for CRONDV.EXE.
READ.ME - this file.
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