My BBS software does not allow for automated events such as to poll fidonet
and qwk hubs. Is there any alternative ways in Windows 10 to do stuff like this?

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On 2019 Jan 06 10:00:38, you wrote to All:

My BBS software does not allow for automated events such as to poll

fidonet

and qwk hubs. Is there any alternative ways in Windows 10 to do stuff like this?

you mean like the using the event scheduler to execute your poll script?

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On Jan 06, 2019 02:47pm, Mark Lewis wrote to Matthew Munson:

On 2019 Jan 06 10:00:38, you wrote to All:

My BBS software does not allow for automated events such as to poll

fidonet

and qwk hubs. Is there any alternative ways in Windows 10 to do stuff
like
this?

you mean like the using the event scheduler to execute your poll script?

I figured out that they actually have an event manager for my bbs platform. WCEVENT

But I also remember Windows had one built in.

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On 2019 Jan 06 12:52:46, you wrote to me:

Is there any alternative ways in Windows 10 to do stuff like this?

you mean like the using the event scheduler to execute your poll
script?

I figured out that they actually have an event manager for my bbs

platform.

WCEVENT

there ya go...

But I also remember Windows had one built in.

yeah, the scheduler i think it was called... used to be in the control panel i think... i don't do winwhatever any more so i don't know what they've done with
things now ;)

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My BBS software does not allow for automated events such as to poll fidonet and qwk hubs. Is there any alternative ways in Windows 10 to do stuff like this?

Is there a version of cron for Windows?

If you are not familiar with it, it is an open source (and, I am guessing, UNIX) scheduler. Pretty easy to use, so long as you get the file
permissions right (and that may not matter in Windows).

Mike
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On 01/06/19, Matthew Munson said the following...

My BBS software does not allow for automated events such as to poll fidonet and qwk hubs. Is there any alternative ways in Windows 10 to do stuff like this?

Yes, set up "cron" events in Task Scheduler.. I have my Amiga CNet BBS
running on Windows 10 inside WinUAE and for BinkD I use a bat file to run the polling events every half hour on the hour. It works real well..

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Re: System Events
By: mark lewis to Matthew Munson on Sun Jan 06 2019 05:28 pm

Just curious, what BBS program are you using, and what OS?
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Re: System Events
By: Matthew Munson to All on Sun Jan 06 2019 10:00 am

My BBS software does not allow for automated events such as to poll fidonet and qwk hubs. Is there any alternative ways in Windows 10 to do stuff like this?

(I should have prolly looked up the name of the program before replying)

There ARE a few programs out that you can set to run events (programs) at certain times of the day. I'm gonna go look and I'll post if I find something before you do
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On 10 Jan 19 23:12:35, Charles Stephenson said the following to Matthew Munson:

(I should have prolly looked up the name of the program before replying)

There ARE a few programs out that you can set to run events (programs) at certain times of the day. I'm gonna go look and I'll post if I find someth before you do

Its been my experience over many years, to always use what is built-into the OS you are using. Task scheduler on Windows, Cron on Linux.

Nick

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On 2019 Jan 10 23:10:52, you wrote to me:

Just curious, what BBS program are you using, and what OS?

i was running RemoteAccess BBS under OS/2... since Hurricane Florence, i'm running Synchronet BBS under Linux...

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Re: System Events
By: mark lewis to Charles Stephenson on Fri Jan 11 2019 02:56 pm

Just curious, what BBS program are you using, and what OS?

i was running RemoteAccess BBS under OS/2... since Hurricane Florence, i'm running Synchronet BBS under Linux...

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Nice, I run Synchro under linux too, I just instaled VirtualBox 6 and I'm playing aroiund with OS/2 now :)
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