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In article <9301261626.AA13854@TIS.COM> Theodore Lee, tmplee@TIS.COM writes:
>I am looking for an alarm-clock program that allows one to set simultaneous
>alarms for several different times during the day, with a (possibly)
>different sound associated with each. [....]

Shameless plug follows...

You could use a nifty little program of mine called "cron" (if you're using
System 7, anyway). It's a generic scheduler for the Mac based directly on 
the UNIX daemon by the same name.

If you wanted, for instance, an hourly chime to be played in the background
every hour between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday, all you'd have 
to do is provide a sound file containing the chime sound you like, and place 
the following line in cron's crontab file.

	0 9-17 * * 1-5 nobody -b sound "Hourly Chime"

If you want visible reminders to appear on your screen at certain times, 
cron's "echo" command (written by Mike Pearce) will take care of that.
Around our office, we find lines like the following very handy:

	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. :-)

The echo command is even smart enough to dismiss it's own alerts after
a certain amount of time (120 seconds in the example above) so that it
doesn't lock up the foreground application all weekend if you happen
to leave without acknowledging the alert. Lots of commercial reminder
utilities aren't that smart.

But the above are just examples of what you can do with the "sound" and 
"echo" commands. Other commands included with cron will do things like 
synchronize your Mac's clock to an RFC 868 Time Protocol server, restart 
your Mac and rebuild it's desktop, open/print files, run/quit programs, 
etc. And anyone with some C and Mac programming experience can write new 
commands easily. Source code is included.

The whole thing is free, and available for anonymous ftp from the 
pub/gatekeeper directory of emx.cc.utexas.edu. If you find that you 
like cron, let me know and I'll put you on the mailing list for update 
notices.

Told you it was a shameless plug.  :-)

----Chris

Chris Johnson

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