>I wrote one app that ran all the time, polling for scheduled processes to run or newly arrived batch files and firing up the appropriate process. Not sure how it would have worked without timers....
In VFP 9? BINDEVENTS. Just Kidding
It should not harm in any case. The polling should run in a private session. The batches should be encapsulated (using separate instances).
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