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- From: Chris Johnson <chrisj@emx.cc.utexas.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: MacCron or reasonable facsimile?
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 22:35:27 GMT
- Organization: University of Texas at Austin Computation Center
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- In article <KENW.93Jan21215004@skyler.arc.ab.ca> Ken Wallewein,
- kenw@skyler.arc.ab.ca writes:
- >What do folks use on a Mac these days to schedule tasks for the wee hours?
-
- I use cron for the Mac.
-
- 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
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