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- From: chrisj@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Chris Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: In search of 'clock daemon' (CRON) for MacOS
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 19:21:26 GMT
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- In article <102886@netnews.upenn.edu> tony@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Anthony
- Olejnik) writes:
- >Does anyone know of a product (public domain/commercial) that
- >executes commands at specified dates and times?
- >
- >Something along the likes of UNIX's CRON would be ideal.
-
- I wrote a BSD-style cron for System 7 a year and half ago.
- Unfortunately,
- I haven't gone out of my way to tell anyone about it. :-) Nonetheless
- it
- exists, it's free (with source), and lots of people use it and find it
- very useful. It even defines a potentially standard method for aguments
- to be passed to mac programs.
-
- It's available for anonymous ftp from the pub/gatekeeper directory of
- emx.cc.utexas.edu. Note that I have a mailing list for cron users, so
- if you try the product and like it, send me email and ask to be placed
- on the cron mailing list. That way I can notify you of updates, etc.
-
-
- Chris Johnson
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