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  3. January 2003

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

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Metz, Zak wrote:

> Oops, you forgot to prompt the command to get the syntax right.
>
> Oh wait...you can't.

Actually this is a case where prompting wouldn't have helped.  Prompting
on the CALL command doesn't help you realize that you left off SBMJOB.

> > From: Martin Rowe [mailto:martin@dbg400.net]
> > > Just for reference, using 'at' for one-off tasks like this would be
> > > easier on *nix systems than cron
> > >
> > >  myscript | at 04:00
> >
> > Ack, should have been:
> >
> >   echo 'myscript' | at 04:00

James Rich

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