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- The RUNT is an ASP member Shareware product.
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- The purpose of the RUNT is allow you to run any software
- at timed intervals. The idea is that you may well have
- tasks that can be done with minimal or no human
- intervention, over a break like tea time, lunch, or
- overnight. The RUNT takes a set of up to 30 programs to
- run from the TODO_NOW or EVENTS.NOW text command file,
- and then runs them at specified times. If you put
- instructions for previous hours in the command file, the
- RUNT will only grab the previous hour's commands. It
- will treat the remainder as instructions for the next
- day. The run defaults to swapping all but 2K of itself
- out to disk when it runs another program.
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- To run the RUNT you just type in its name and wait as it
- looks for a current copy of the command file. It grabs
- its setup information from the file, sets itself up and
- runs. If there is no current command file, or no current
- entries it complains. If you wish you can use another
- setup file as a parameter with the RUNT as shown with
- "RUNT \mystuff\ToBeRun" in place of, or in addition to,
- the command file. This allows you to have many programs
- to run, and to repeatedly cycle through the runs (eg for
- testing or other repeating activities). The RUNT
- automatically rereads the setup file each hour, which
- allows another process to renew the file for it and
- reloads the runs that are repeated every hour.
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- Optional command line usage:
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- -H for the usage screen.
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- -Ffilename to allow you to specify an alternate command
- file.
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- -S to tell the RUNT to swap to the PROGRAM, specified in
- the command file (or tsphone).
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- Some features:
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- Some years of instructions for programs to run can be
- stored in the events.dbf database. These values are
- transferred to the command file (EVENTS.NOW) using
- TSPHONE. See the TSPHONE.DOC and the online help in
- TSPHONE.
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- Programs like OPMENU and TSPHONE allow you to run many
- more than 30 programs with more flexibility by adding
- multiple entry numbers on the RUNT program to be run line
- as in "OPMENU -R 1 4 67 213 9917". With each entry
- number then running one after the previous at and after
- the time specified for the entry. Plus each entry can
- easily contain instructions to run several programs in
- programmed sequence.
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- CHECKDATE
- Adding "CHECKDATE" early in the instructions for the file
- tells RUNT to only use the file if it is current and has
- today's file date. The RUNT quits if there is no current
- script file.
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- DELAY 25
- Delay allows you to change the display reading time in
- seconds. The default value is 15 seconds. See also WAIT
- below.
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- NOSWAP
- Adding "NOSWAP" on the program to run line tells the RUNT
- not to swap itself to disk before running the program.
- This is somewhat faster and quite feasable when running
- most general utility programs. The RUNT occupies about
- 100k when running another program using NOSWAP.
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- QUIT
- A program to run named "QUIT" will cause the RUNT to
- quit.
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- RELOAD
- Using "RELOAD somefile" tells RUNT to reload its
- instructions from the specified 'somefile'. This allows
- you to chain groups of instructions to overcome the 30
- instruction limit. If you do not include a file name,
- the RUNT assumes that you want to reload from TSPHONE and
- the events database, so it automatically runs the phone
- program to create a new script file. Any reload that
- occurs in the first hour of the day (just after midnight)
- includes an automatic CHECKDATE to ensure that the RUNT
- does not use one day's script file on the next day. If
- no current script file is found the RUNT quits.
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- WAIT
- The WAIT command can be used on the same line as another
- command to tell the runt program to wait so you can see
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- the results of the command. It is actually a long delay
- so you can include it in scripts that are run when nobody
- is around.
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- TODO_NOW (EVENTS.NOW)
- TODO_NOW is the default name for the file the RUNT reads
- in to get its instructions. Its alternate name
- EVENTS.NOW is generated automatically from the EVENTS.DBF
- database by the TSPHONE program, and you can also just
- create or edit an existing command file. Many current
- users just use their text editor to edit and reuse
- existing command files.
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- The RUNT is not a TSR or RAM resident program.
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- This product is Copyright (C) 1993 P. C. Softsmith all
- rights reserved. It is distributed as shareware and must
- be distributed with this documentation. It is normally
- distributed with other P.C. Softsmith materials that
- further explain the shareware process. If you wish to
- distribute it with your software or are unable to find
- the other documentation that should accompany this file
- (such as the SHR_WARE.DOC, FILE_ID.DIZ, and the
- VENDOR.DOC) please contact whoever gave you the software
- or P.C. Softsmith.
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- For technical support, either call (604) 433-5189, or
- write to Suite 606 - 6455 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby,
- British Columbia, Canada, V5H 4E4. Both registered and
- soon to be registered users currently get the same
- support without any arbitrary time limit. You may also
- try leaving a Compuserve message at 75020, 2664, or send
- email to INTERNET:vic_williams@mindlink.bc.ca
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