Re: Timer Background Process for Backup/Shutdown

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From: Jon Gough
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 21:22

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In <Fi8yic1w165w@mindvox.phantom.com>, purlah@mindvox.phantom.com (The Dc Duke) writes:
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>	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
>

I may be missing the point, but why not use the alarm applet. This allows you to
set 10 alarms which can cause programs to be executed. This is how I back up my 
important directories to the file server twice a day.
Regards

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From: jon@trust.anu.edu.au (Jon Gough)
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