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TimeBoy for OS/2 version 0.1
Author: Richard Miller rmiller@rtmc.com
Status: Freeware
TimeBoy for OS/2 is Freeware. That means you can use it all you want
and nobody wants your money. I do ask though, that if you use TimeBoy
and find it useful, please email me and let me know.
Requirements: TimeBoy requires EMX.DLL. It is included in the zip file.
If you already have it, just use the newer copy.
EMX.DLL must be in a directory specified in the LIBPATH in CONFIG.SYS.
How to use TimeBoy:
timeboy [program] [interval]
where: program = name of program to periodically execute
interval = how often to execute program (in seconds)
TimeBoy will execute any command that can be used at an OS/2
command prompt.
If you want to run multiple commands, or add command line parameters
to a command, then create a .CMD file for timeboy to run.
For example, I use TimeBoy to periodically fetch news articles for
Changi. The command I need to run is: chanx -ms news.host.domain.
So I write a file called 'getnews.cmd' that contains a line:
chanx -ms news.host.domain
Then I run TimeBoy as: timeboy getnews.cmd 1800. This would run the
command 'chanx -ms news.host.domain' every 30 minutes.
To redirect the output of TimeBoy to a file, run as:
'timeboy [program] [interval] > [file]
where: file is the name of the file to keep the output