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Michael Hoffman
cam.ac.uk at mh391.invalid
Wed Apr 27 10:20:00 EDT 2005
Peter Hansen wrote:
> Jeremy Bowers wrote:
>
>> ... On UNIX, use some "cron" varient, Windows has
>> some sort of Scheduler built in but I've never done anything with it but
>> turn it off
>
>
> Modern Windowsen also have the "AT" command line program which is
> sometimes a much more appropriate way to get at that capability than the
> "Scheduler" GUI approach. Haven't had occasion to use either yet,
> myself...
Personally I use the scheduler GUI and the schtasks.exe command-line
program which is an interface to the same capability. At.exe gives you
an interface to an older API.
But there is a Python interface to the older API. Here's an example:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/python/os/tasks/ostkpy01.mspx
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Michael Hoffman
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