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Re: NT scripting

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryant Christian Vernon)
Thu Oct 5 11:06:42 2000

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From: Bryant Christian Vernon <bcvernon@MIT.EDU>
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Hi Chris,

What version of Windows are you doing this on?  Soon is not a standard
NT command, so I am not familiar with it.

Thanks,
Bryant

Chris Meehan wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> I have started to play with scripting since the last NT Partners meeting.
> I am very stuck with the AT command and its variant SOON.  If I enter a
> command it will show up in WINAT as an active task and execute on time, but
> nothing happens.  For example  SOON 60 "CMD /C j:\Software\bin\sysinfo.bat"
>  Should run SYSINFO.BAT in 60 seconds, but all that happens is that in 60
> seconds it is removed from the task scheduler.  This happen when I try to
> run this locally or remotely.  Task scheduler is running in both cases.
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks
> Chris
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