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Re: A daily script
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Re: A daily script


  • Subject: Re: A daily script
  • From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:46:06 +0100

At 12:29 +0100 20/12/00, Ken Mcgregor wrote:
>I need to run a script at a set time each day.
>
>I am stuck between either writing an idle script that rests for a perid then
>checks the time. (current hour)
>or whether to use something like Cron.
>
>It will be run on a dedicated Mac.
>
>Any advice gratefully received

If you use Smile as your editor, you can use it also as the environment to
generate "idle" events, and your scripts will run in a much safer context
than in a stay-open applet.

Emmanuel


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