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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:
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" ...
/kim
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