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Re: AppleScript Timed Events
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Re: AppleScript Timed Events


  • Subject: Re: AppleScript Timed Events
  • From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 13:48:22 +0100
  • Mac-eudora-version: 6.0a21

At 11:20 am +0100 18/6/03, Nigel Smith wrote:

at's big advantage over an AppleScript package is that, as Deivy pointed
out, you don't have to be logged in to the machine for it to work. So, for
example, I can use it to schedule a system software update and restart on a
server at 3am, rather than disrupt the lab during work hours or set my alarm
clock and log in from home.

In such an environment there's no doubt it's a fine tool.

... what do you plan to
do if a user logs in, and therefore starts the scheduler, 10 minutes after a
scheduled job should have run? Will you ignore all past jobs, or keep a log
of completed jobs so you can run those which should have happened but
didn't? Will there be a switch so the user can choose which jobs should be
run after their scheduled time? Dialogs which ask?

I don't at the moment see any problem in providing options to deal with these cases, but we'll see.

JD
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