NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/os/vms/19714

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Subject: re: want freeware batch scheduler
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Date: 22 Dec 92 13:49:26 GMT
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I suggest looking (as should be routine for requests of this sort)
:-) on your friendly local VMS SIG Tapes. There have been numerous
scheduler programs which I suspect will do what is wanted here.
Art Ragosta's KRONOS comes to mind as an example...it was on the Fall
1991 tapes and an update was submitted for the Fall 1992 tapes,
which are in preparation now. There have been many others, well
able to perform fairly complex scheduling jobs, and somewhat
easier to use for this than the usual batch-job-that-resubmits-itself
hack which most folks use. (The hack is fine for a few jobs, but
for numerous scheduled actions, particularly at intervals which are
not easy multiples of one another, it becomes cumbersome. That's why
things like KRONOS get written.)
   The sig tapes are available from your local LUG, or on tape or CD
from the DECUS library (508 841 3500; they do take credit cards).
The usual collection size is about 300 MB per 6 months; they are
cumulative, not simple "later versions of the same stuff", so
just having the last one is NOT going to get you the entire
collection. (Having all of them does, and having the last 2-3
years' worth is a pretty good start, though I grabbed something off
a 1985 tape for current use just a couple days back.)
Glenn Everhart
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VMS SIG Tape librarian