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SOFTWARE: WarpCron 1.98 (scheduling computr tasks)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julian Buss)
Fri Aug 22 22:58:38 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 20 Aug 1997 12:03:00 -0400
From: julian@10vorne.shnet.org (Julian Buss)
Reply-To: julian@10vorne.shnet.org
Reply-to: julian@10vorne.shnet.org (Julian Buss)
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WarpCron 1.98 Scheduler for OS/2
This is a bugfixed version of WarpCron 1.95beta with some new
enhancements.
WarpCron is a textmode scheduler for OS/2 2.x, 3.x and 4.x. It will help you
to schedule your programs in many ways.
WarpCron is POSTCARDWARE. It has a smart (really smart :-) ) reminder that
reminds you to send me a postcard if you like this program. If I get a card
from you I'll send you a little key and the reminder will change to a
"thanker".
wcron198.zip can be found at:
ftp://hobbes/os2/util/schedule
sky /incoming
ftp://ftp.leo.org/incoming
or German gfd-file distribution network in gfd.sys.tool.
Features:
* smart but rich featured scheduler
* needs nearly no CPU-Time
* can kill started programs by other events
* can reread its config during runtime
* notices a config change and reread its config then
* can edit its config directly out of the program
* can start missed events at startup
f.e. an event should run at 12:30, but you shut down WarpCron at
11:00 and start it again at 14:00. Then WarpCron can run the missed
event when it starts.
* native textmode (no PM required! Perfectly for systems with low memory
and for example TShell)
* native 32bit OS/2 application (OS/2 2.x, 3.x. 4.x)
* can start OS/2-Window, OS/2-Fullscreen, OS/2-PM, DOS-Fullscreen and
DOS (Windows?) applications
* can start applications every X minutes/hours/days/months
* can start applications NOT on a time interval
(do not run between 5:00 and 7:30 or so)
* can start applications on specific weekdays
* can start applications on a specific date
* can start applications on a semaphore (0-byte file)
* can start applications NOT on a semaphore
(do not run if this file exists)
* can start applications manually
* can start applications minimized
* can start applications at startup and/or end of program
* writes log file with date/time
* automatically recognize a *.CMD as a program, this means that you can
simply start a *.CMD like an EXE; you do NOT have to write
"cmd.exe /c start "bla.cmd" ".
WarpCron will do this automatically for you.
* WarpCron changes the directory when starting a program to the directory
which is specified in the event.
For example: PROGRAM f:\utils\test\warprobot.exe
When starting this event WarpCron changes the current directory
to f:\utils\test.
Some programs require this.
NEW * email support
WarpCron sends you an email if something happens (starting,
trapping...) or sends you the log of the day at midnight.
See warpcron.cfg for details.
NEW * supports 4os2 and 4os2 btm-files
Just use btm-files as normal exe-files ;-)
NEW in this version:
version 1.98
(12 August 1997)
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- Tool MKSEM.EXE added. This little tool doesn't do much, it just
make a file semaphore so you don't have to write a cmd-file for doing
this (f.e. with an "echo . >semaphore" in it).
- email support:
WarpCron sends a email...
on start of program
on end of program
on abnormal exit (trap)
And WarpCron can send you today's logfile via email every day.
See warpcron.cfg for details.
- 4os2 support:
if COMSPEC points to 4os2, WarpCron will use it.
You can use .btm-files just like every .exe-file then.
- you can force WarpCron to run in 25-lines or 50-lines mode with
LargeScreen true; or
SmallScreen true;
- key 'w' shows last date/time of config file and its size
FIXED in this version:
V1.96
- no hiding of cursor anymore
some editors had problems with it
- a problem with RunEveryXMon if >1
- default for editor (tedit.exe)
- after editing config via key 'c' events were not sorted
- ConfigChanged didn't always detect a changed config file
- error with calculation of DoNotRun...
- some cosmetic bugs
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