home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.apps:20526 comp.sys.mac.misc:22320 comp.sys.mac.wanted:13031
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!gargravarr.cc.utexas.edu!chrisj
- From: Chris Johnson <chrisj@emx.cc.utexas.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted
- Subject: Re: WANTED: Mac CRON program
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 22:31:06 GMT
- Organization: University of Texas at Austin Computation Center
- Lines: 28
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <1k1pnaINN74i@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
- References: <RFROST.93Jan22075802@degas.jrc.flinders.edu.au> <w2m3-d+@rpi.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: gargravarr.cc.utexas.edu
- X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d17
- X-XXMessage-ID: <A789C5507B01BE1F@gargravarr.cc.utexas.edu>
- X-XXDate: Mon, 25 Jan 93 22:26:56 GMT
-
- In article <RFROST.93Jan22075802@degas.jrc.flinders.edu.au> Richard Frost,
- rfrost@degas.jrc.flinders.edu.au writes:
- >I am looking for a Mac equivalent to the well-known UNIX CRON program
- >that can lauch applications at a certain time automatically.
- >
- >Has ANYONE done this, I have been looking for programs like this
- >for ages. The only thing close is AUTOMAC, and that requires a user
- >to be present to playback the recorded interaction (ie lauching a
- >program).
-
- Yes, I wrote cron for System 7 several years ago. It works, a lot of
- people use it, it's free and the source code is available at no cost.
- It even uses the same format for its crontab file as the real BSD UNIX
- cron (no common source code at all, however).
-
- Anyone interested can get it via anonymous ftp to the pub/gatekeeper
- directory of emx.cc.utexas.edu.
-
- If you like it, send me email and I'll put you on the list of cron
- users so you'll be notified of updates.
-
- 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
- AppleLink: chrisj@emx.cc.utexas.edu@internet#
-