/// Introduction to DCron
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    by Robert Niles



Something that would be nice to have is a program that automatically
maintains your system for you....well sort of anyways. This is especially
important and needed by those of you who run BBSes, but I'm sure there is
enough reason for everyone else out there to get a program that will help
keep your computer from becoming a mess.

One such program is DCron, a UNIX like CRON utility, by Matt Dillon.
It took me a long time before looking into this pretty little program,
mostly because of the description given in the documentation:

" Those not familar with the UNIX cron command probably do not need it. "

While it might be descriptive to most people, I was at a loss.

...until another set of documents showed me how useful it could be.

DCron is a program that allows you to execute other programs at any interval
you like. Monthly, hourly, by the minute, or on a specific day of the week.

As I run a BBS, there are call in which I would like to have my computer
make at strange hours, logs that need to be resized, deleted, or renamed.
Even have GPFax see if there is a fax to be sent out every hour. 

Using DCron makes this alot easier for those of us who do not want to get up
in the middle of the night to do these things.

DCron is set up as a 'grid' for example:

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