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- │ RUN IT ONCE EVERY DAY │
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- BEFORE: PcComputing's June 1991 magazine contained a utility file called
- "Once a day" that ran any programs you wanted once every day.
- But it was overwhelmed with bugs !!
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- 1. It required that you make 3 separate batch files.
- 2. You must create a separate subdirectory just to run the file.
- 3. It takes over 25 seconds to run the thing.
- 4. If you're working very late, the routines kick in when you
- reboot, thus screwing up whatever you were doing.
- 5. It doesn't work on far-east formatted times (yy-mm-dd as opposed
- to mm-dd-yy).
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- AFTER: Sorry guys, that's too many bugs !
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- Therefore, I created:
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- Do you have some computerized tasks you do at the start of your day?
- Some people like running Viruscan upon bootup, or maybe CHKDSK.
- Others get their electronic mail, or check for messages on a local
- BBS. Putting all this stuff in your autoexec.bat takes a lot of space,
- plus everytime you reboot, all the tasks will start again !
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- EVERYDAY.EXE checks for a file called "[date].XXX". If it doesn't exist,
- then the file is created, and all your daily chores are done.
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- No rediculous batch files, no subdirectories to create, NOTHING TO DO !
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- ┌───────────────┐
- │USAGE AND RULES│
- └───────────────┘
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- 1. Usage: EVERYDAY [file to run] [another file] [another file...]
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- ie: EVERYDAY chkdsk cls dir viruscan
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- EVERYDAY "del \backup\*.*" "copy \lotus\*.wk1 \backup"
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- EVERYDAY "del \pcplus\*.log" cd\pcplus pcplus
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- ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ PUT EVERYDAY.EXE + FILES-TO-RUN INSIDE YOUR AUTOEXEC.BAT FILE │
- └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- 3. The file [date].XXX must be in current directory, or in path.
- (you can't start from drive A: one day, then drive C: the next,
- because the date-file will still be on drive A:)
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- 4. Any command requiring a space between it (del *.bak) must be surrounded
- by quotation marks. Ie: [del *.bak] would become ["del *.bak"].
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- 5. Don't have any files in your path with a .XXX extension, because
- they'll be deleted.
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- (Oh no! Gotta rename any pornographic files I have !)
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- "Everyday" is a free program, donated to the public domain in May, 1991.
- Any usage of this utility should be a non-commercial use, and cannot
- be sold or distributed for profit. If you'd like to discuss permission
- to sell this product, contact me on Compuserve 71441,2723.
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- My utility makes a "PWEEEW" sound upon bootup when the date-file already
- exists. A longer "BWEEEEEEEP" is sounded when the file is created, and
- your files-to-run are being executed. The noise is not a system quirk !
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- │from the mind│
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- │ DAVE SMITH │││
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- david smith i.d.f. company fort worth texas 1991