Re: Automating yarn

From: Richard Steiner (rsteiner@visi.com)
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:40:42 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Mark Weinstock wrote:

> Some may remember a few weeks ago I asked about trying to automate soup
> downloads to my home machine, so that I can then pick them up from my work
> laptop when I'm on the road. I have just about all of it worked out (Thanks
> for the RASdial95 reference), except the actual scheduling. I'm using
> Win95, and the task scheduler does not seem to want to allow me to schedule
> to same task for multiple times in the same day. Now, I could set it up as
> multiple tasks, and have each take place at a different time, but I'd
> rather find a tool that will let me schedule a task to happen, say, every
> hour on the hour.
>
> Any ideas?

I'm not particularly conversant with the tools available for Win95, since
I don't use it much, but has anyone ported cron to that environment? That
would certainly give you the type of flexibility you're looking for.

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