Peter,
Win98 (I think), WinNT (certainly) and Win2k (certainly) all have task scheduling capabilities - you can quite easily call a batch or script file (as well as an exe complete with command line parameters etc) using this technique.
Cheers,
Andrew
>Hello All,
>my clients would like their data ( not exclusively VFP )copied to a snapshot/reporting directory at a specifed time ( e.g. please run at 22:00 hrs ). Would it be a reasonable solution to let them specify a time ( via a spinner or WHY ) on a form, calculate the difference between the current time and the specifed time, and set a timer interval to that value?. This process would be kicked off manually by the I.T. dept every night so it doesn't have to be totally foolproof ( I hear you all cringing ). At the moment they have an old Dos app called wait-for.exe which literally waits at the command prompt until a specified time, I don't know what it was written in, where the source code is etc,etc...
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>Pete Kane
If we were to introduce Visual FoxBase+, would we be able to work from the dotNet Prompt?
From Top 22 Developer Responses to defects in Software
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1. "I thought I fixed that."
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