RE: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah...

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 15:32, Joe Pluta wrote:
[snip]
> 
> In OS/400, it's something like this (for the 4AM job):
> 
> ADDJOBSCDE JOB(MYJOB) CMD(CALL PGM(MYPGM))
>            FRQ(*WEEKLY) SCDDAY(*SUN) SCDTIME(0400)
> 
> It's much easier to add a one-shot job using ADDJOBSCDE than it is to use
> cron.  But like I said, it can be done.

Hi Joe

Just for reference, using 'at' for one-off tasks like this would be
easier on *nix systems than cron

 myscript | at 04:00

would schedule myscript to run at 4am (next day if already past that
time). Besides, ADDJOBSCDE doesn't support such predefined times as
midnight, noon and teatime (4pm apparently) ;) 

As far as Windows scheduling goes, ISTR an Agent available in the Plus!
pack for Win'95 that seemed to work, though I never made much use of it.

Regards, Martin
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