Replying to a message from mark lewis 1:3634/12 to Gordon Lewicky,

About Echo rules, On Mon Nov 10 2003

on their normal schedule... i think i'm going to incorporate
something new that i've found... a neat bat file routine from the
4dos echo, iirc... runs things on a schedule or as soon thereafter

I use Cron2 an OS/2 utility here then set my robot to do the tasks I want done,
my system is automated to the point all I need to do is read my mail and reply
and manually get my anti virus updates.

If you are running under DOS or any flavor of Windows there are programs out there that can help, but being that I am predominantly OS2 I would not know about them. :-)

Hope this helps. Keep us posted.

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on their normal schedule... i think i'm going to incorporate
something new that i've found... a neat bat file routine from the
4dos echo, iirc... runs things on a schedule or as soon thereafter

I use Cron2 an OS/2 utility here then set my robot to do the
tasks I want done, my system is automated to the point all I
need to do is read my mail and reply and manually get my anti
virus updates.

i've got cron utils and such... the problem is when the time for the event passes while the machine is jambed or even turned off... i have events that need to run as soon as the machine returns to operational condition... crons won't do that... note that i'm speaking of things that may not run but once a month or less... if the event time passes, i don't want to have to wait for another month before it runs... i need it to run now...

maybe that explanation makes better sense now?

)\/(ark


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Hello Mark,

Tuesday 11 November 2003 22:33, mark lewis wrote to Gord Hannah:

i've got cron utils and such... the problem is when the time for the
event passes while the machine is jambed or even turned off... i have events that need to run as soon as the machine returns to operational condition... crons won't do that... note that i'm speaking of things
that may not run but once a month or less... if the event time passes,
i don't want to have to wait for another month before it runs... i
need it to run now...

I've a REXX program that checks and/or writes the current system date to an EA of a file of your choice and returns a return code depending on whether it's already run today/this month etc.


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i've got cron utils and such... the problem is when the time for the
event passes while the machine is jambed or even turned off... i have
events that need to run as soon as the machine returns to operational
condition... crons won't do that... note that i'm speaking of things
that may not run but once a month or less... if the event time passes, ml>> i don't want to have to wait for another month before it runs... i
need it to run now...

I've a REXX program that checks and/or writes the current
system date to an EA of a file of your choice and returns a
return code depending on whether it's already run today/this
month etc.

that's interesting... likely more OS/2 native than i'm implementing now... what
i'm doing now is based on a 4DOS btm file... it runs under 4DOS, 4OS2, and even
4NT... i just need to upgrade the 4DOS version on the OS/2 box... that's easy enough, though... just hate to have to do that reboot... i've already got everything set, just need to xcopy it over...

thanks for the offer, though... hey! maybe you could post it in here or OS2REXX?

)\/(ark


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Hello Mark!

11 Nov 03 22:33, mark lewis wrote to Gord Hannah:

i've got cron utils and such... the problem is when the time for the
event passes while the machine is jambed or even turned off... i have events that need to run as soon as the machine returns to operational condition... crons won't do that... note that i'm speaking of things
that may not run but once a month or less... if the event time passes, i don't want to have to wait for another month before it runs... i need it to run now...
maybe that explanation makes better sense now?

yes. there is something under linux precisely for that. I think it is called anachron. You can always grab the source and recompile with emx. For small things it is usually smooth sailing. The alternative is to build a similar system using Rexx. Every time you boot the system, your script reads the database of things to do, check when it was done the last time. If the delay is
passed, it does it and updates the database/flag until next time.


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Hello Mark!

11 Nov 03 22:33, mark lewis wrote to Gord Hannah:

i've got cron utils and such... the problem is when the time for the
event passes while the machine is jambed or even turned off... i have
events that need to run as soon as the machine returns to operational
condition... crons won't do that... note that i'm speaking of things
that may not run but once a month or less... if the event time passes, i
don't want to have to wait for another month before it runs... i need it
to run now...
maybe that explanation makes better sense now?

yes. there is something under linux precisely for that. I
think it is called anachron. You can always grab the source
and recompile with emx. For small things it is usually smooth
sailing. The alternative is to build a similar system using
Rexx. Every time you boot the system, your script reads the
database of things to do, check when it was done the last
time. If the delay is passed, it does it and updates the
database/flag until next time.

yup, that's what this 4DOS dayboot thingy does... however, now i have to try to
figure out how to get it to do it on specific dates in addition to its current every x days mode... since its written in 4DOS stuff, it should also operate just fine under 4OS2 as a "native" script... i won't find that out, though, until i get the rest of it working as needed...

)\/(ark


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Hello Mark,

Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:13, mark lewis wrote to Eddy Thilleman:

I've a REXX program that checks and/or writes the current
system date to an EA of a file of your choice and returns a ....snipped....

that's interesting... likely more OS/2 native than i'm implementing

....snipped....

thanks for the offer, though... hey! maybe you could post it in here
or OS2REXX?

I'll post it in OS2REXX...


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