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- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: Timed batchfile execution
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.143633.22272@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <1992Aug31.182628.18091@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:36:33 GMT
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- hshulman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Harvey G Shulman) writes:
-
- >I want to set up a processing job on my PC to start running in the
- >evening after I've gone home. Is there a tsr utility available that can
- >run a batch file at a designated time?
-
- Many of the schedulers included with tape backup programs can run batches
- or programs other than the tape software. Some let you specify a DOS
- command line; others require your batch to have a particular name
- (e.g. BATCH_1.BAT).
- Another choice, if you can start the batch job when you leave, is to include
- a program in it that does nothing but loop until a certain time and then
- terminates (batch processing continues...). You can write this one yourself
- in most any language; I think PC Mag has one called WAITUNTL.COM.
- A third choice (really part of the first) would be the scheduling ability of
- a program such as PC SHELL, one of Central Point Software's PC TOOLS. It is
- primarily intended to start automatic backups, but it one of the programs
- that can start any batch at a particular time.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- -JTT
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