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Article #6934Re: Timer Background Process for Backup/Shutdown
From: Jim Boyer
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 15:48
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 15:48
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There is a CRON program for OS/2, called CRON2 that is available on the net. I don't remember where I got it so you will need to do an archie search -- Jim Boyer In <Fi8yic1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com>, purlah@mindvox.phantom.com (The Dc Duke) writes: > > I am trying to locate a freeware or shareware package, or a >simple method of accomplishing an automatic operation in os/2 at a given >time. The process to do this must be background and demand minimal CPU time >until it becomes active. We must use our own software to accomplish the >backup operation, so anything that will execute one of our batches at the >preset time would be great. This is a priority project, so please respond >asap by email to purlah@phantom.com. Your help is very much appreciated. > > Dan Cohn >
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