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- From: rtmd30@email.sps.mot.com (Greg Ferguson)
- Subject: Re: HELP: I need a utility that will quit an app after idle time
- Message-ID: <rtmd30-271292214140@220.1.50.175>
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- Organization: Motorola
- References: <1992Dec27.051111.28088@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec27.153345.22629@lut.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 04:43:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec27.153345.22629@lut.ac.uk>, L.H.Wood@lut.ac.uk wrote:
- >
- > Cumbersome - yes. Fiddly - yes. But having your Mac power itself off
- > is rather neat. Anybody know something more sophisticated (using
- > AppleEvents, say) to do what this guy really wants?
- >
-
- It sounds like it'll work. "cron" from the author of GateKeeper will force
- the shutdown or restart, but it can't shutup those pesky dialogs.
-
- A combination of cron and your combination might work better for my
- application (periodic restart of an A/S server). The use of AfterDark and
- modules is pretty ingenious (or devious... whichever is more flattering to
- you?).
-
- Regards,
-
- Greg Ferguson
- Programmer/Engineer
- Desktop Networking System
- SPS, World Marketing
- Motorola, Inc.
-