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- Article 8327 of comp.sys.ibm.pc:
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- >From: bill@hpcvlo.HP.COM (Bill Frolik)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
- Subject: AT command scheduler for MS-DOS
- Message-ID: <1610038@hpcvlo.HP.COM>
- Date: 29 Sep 87 17:59:27 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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- I see that someone out there is writing an AT utility. Here's something
- similar I wrote a while back that some of you might find useful. It's
- vaguely similar to the Unix AT scheduler, and is used to schedule programs,
- batch files, or DOS commands at some absolute or relative time/date.
- You can schedule up to 20 different events; commands are fired off only when
- your system is waiting for a new command at a command shell prompt.
-
- This program is a TSR; it will go away when you power off or reboot your
- computer, thereby losing any pending command schedule (it's kept in the
- resident RAM). When initially installed, AT tries to learn when it's
- appropriate to issue commands -- it will probably get confused if you install
- a command editor (like CED or DOSEDIT) on top of COMMAND.COM.
-
- The program has been used without any problem on a PC-AT and an HP Vectra.
- I haven't really tried it on anything else, but it's pretty generic code
- so there shouldn't be any trouble. Type "AT" with no parameters for more
- help.
-
- Bill Frolik
- hp-pcd!bill
- Hewlett-Packard Portable Computer Division
- Corvallis, Oregon
-