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- WHATDAY.BAT September 1993 Roland Segers
- Page 294
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- Purpose: Set up batch files to remind you to run specific
- tasks on specific days of the week.
-
- Syntax: WHATDAY
-
- Remarks: It's a good idea to run your virus-checking program
- weekly. Because many viruses are set to take effect
- on Fridays, you should scan for them before then.
- Here's a batch file that checks the day of the week,
- then runs your virus checker if it's Thursday.
-
- @ECHO OFF
- ECHO @PROMPT SET WHATDAY=$0 > \TMP-DAY1.BAT
- COMMAND /C \TMP-DAY1 > \TMP-DAY2.BAT
- CALL \TMP-DAY2
- DEL \TMP-DAY?.*
- IF %WHATDAY% == Thu GOTO Thursday
- GOTO END
- :Thursday
- REM Put the command to launch your virus
- scanner here.
- :END
-
- In place of the wrapped REM line above, substitute
- your virus checker's path and command line. Next,
- open AUTOEXEC.BAT in an ASCII text editor and add
- the line CALL WHATDAY after your PATH statement
- (on a line below the PATH statement) and before any
- lines that run menus.
-
- It's easy to add additional weekly duties to WHATDAY.
- BAT. Simply copy the line beginning IF %WHATDAY%,
- replace "Thu" with the three-letter abbreviation for
- the day you want, and replace the GOTO statement
- with any command you want to run.
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