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- About Grant's AutoLauncher
-
- HISTORY:
-
- This program is a quick and simple program launcher/system shutdown
- utility. I was preparing to hand in one of my labs, in which i had to
- use their @#$#@!$ IBMs...and when i tried to pull up my main code,
- M$ Word told me that the file was corrupt! I hardly EVER have such
- problems with the mac...anyhow, i needed another copy. Well, thinking
- ahead of myself, i had set up my macintosh with a copy of Hermes ][ and
- loaded the files so i could log in and retrieve. Unfortunately, my
- computer-illiterate mother was at home...i tried calling, but there
- was a slight snag. and i had no way of telling her what was wrong (nor
- even guess what was wrong, although i have my suspicions).
- Anyhow, i drove home (2 hour drive back and forth), uploaded my
- file to a FTP site of mine, and sent the message in an e-mail to myself.
- PLUS started Hermes ][ again and fixed what i thought was wrong. Well,
- i got to school AND IT WAS CLOSED!! (Closed early for xmas). I was
- enraged beyond description.
- Back to the reason i wrote this: I called home after 3:45pm (i had
- set the computer to shutdown at 3:30pm using the Star Trek clock). the
- modem answered. 20 minutes later i tried again, and found it ringing...
- however, my mother told me that she found Hermes still running so she
- turned it off herself.
- I was sick and tired of this. So i wrote this program. The original
- purpose is to launch an application at a certain time (ie Hermes at
- the time i should arrive at school) and shutdown the computer at a certain
- time (ie the time i should no longer need Hermes). For a while i have
- been looking for a program like this...so i decided to write one.
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- PAYMENT:
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- This is WhoCaresWare. I really wrote this for myself, and i didn't
- really see anyone else bothering to use it (much less pay me for it). So
- I didn't add registration, lock-outs, etc. etc....all i ask is if you
- find this very handy, show me your gratitude. ('Cides, this was pretty
- much a one-day project)
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- HOW TO REACH ME:
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- internet e-mail:
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- cats.godot@ionx.com
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- snail mail:
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- grant guenther
- 18250 fremont fort dr
- peyton, co 80831
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- VERSION HISTORY:
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- 1.0a: initial release (and, since i really don't plan to maintain this,
- this will probably be the only release)
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- THANKS, ETC.:
- I just want to say that i thought of Troy when i found the icon to use.
- (I wasn't going to use an icon, but i felt that this program needed SOME
- kind of icon...)
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