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Re: Multiple Alarm Clock sought -- try "cron"

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From: Erik Svensson FOA2
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:53
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Chris Johnson <chrisj@emx.cc.utexas.edu> writes:

>	0 17 * * 5 nobody -b echo -t 120 "Get out of the office! Drink some \
>	beers. Have a nice weekend."
>	
>This displays an alert which makes sure we don't forget it's quitting 
>time on Friday afternoon. (Otherwise, we might work straight through the 
>weekend and not even notice. :-)

Oh yes! And it's happened too. I'll be a-getting this!

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     Erik Svensson
    Research Officer            National Defense Research Establishment (FOA)
 Guided Weapons Division        Stockholm, Sweden      eriks@fenix.lin.foa.se

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From: eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
Subject: Re: Multiple Alarm Clock sought -- try "cron"
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