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- From: mross@antigone.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: In search of 'clock daemon' (CRON) for MacOS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.110433.2282@antigone.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 11:04:33 GMT
- References: <1ikk7mINNgp1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
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- Chris Johnson <chrisj@emx.cc.utexas.edu> writes:
- : 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
- :
- : Internet: chrisj@emx.cc.utexas.edu
- : UUCP: {husc6|uunet}!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!chrisj
- : BITNET: chrisj@utxvm.bitnet
- : CompuServe: >INTERNET:chrisj@emx.cc.utexas.edu
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- Would your cron be able to act as a client to a NeXT timeserver which is connected to a
- Mac running MacTCP?
-
-
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- Michael Ross
- Antigone Press, San Francisco, California
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