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- This is an improved version of the AmiCron program on Fish Disk #113. It was
- originally written by Steve Sampson, and is NOT copyrighted, but is explicitly
- placed Public Domain (p). The Amiga port was done by Rick Schaeffer, with the
- latest (v2.4a) improvements courtesy of Christian Balzer, and others (see the
- AmiCron.doc file). The timer code is extracted from Rob Peck's "simple timer
- example" program.
-
- I've included sample "crontab" and ".startcron" files, as well as my "startcron"
- alias for the Dillon/Drew "shell".
-
- To run amicron, simply copy "AmiCron24a" to your c: directory (renaming it to
- "amicron"), and the ".startcron" and "crontab" files to your s: directory.
- Add the initiating alias (in "alias4shell") to your shell ".login" file, and
- re-source it. Then just enter "startcron", and (poof) AmiCron will be up and
- running whatever commands you've added to the "crontab" file. [ If you're
- NOT using "shell", just enter the newcli command as shown in "alias4shell" (or
- some variation thereof). ]
-
- Note that the "months" field now runs from 1-12 (instead of 0-11), and that
- command initiation "accuracy" has been improved. See the doc file for a
- more complete list of improvements over v2.3.
-
-
- Some future enhancements I'd like to see are:
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- 1 - A cleaner way of shutting amicron down
-
- 2 - Fix amicron to run without a window to avoid it "blocking" when
- one accidentally types into it's window (you *will* do this, per
- Murphy)
-
- 3 - Have amicron write it's output to a log file (due to 2), and
- provide a method for listing this file without shutting amicron
- down.
-
- 4 - Continue to improve the "accuracy" of amicron's timing (in a load
- independent way).
-
- I'll probably get working on these "RSN" ...
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- /kim
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