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Automation of a function
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From
01/11/2004 10:16:30
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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01/11/2004 01:44:12
Deepak Chopra
IBM Global Services India Pvt. Ltd.
Pune, India
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
COM/DCOM and OLE Automation
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00956446
Message ID:
00956550
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7
>Hi All,
>
>I am planning to execute a particular function at a particular time from the server. Please let me know the steps to do this using VFP COM/DCOM. I have EXE at a server and data as well.
>
>Please help.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Deepak.

Just use the Windows Task Scheduler to specify when you want to run an EXE (and put the desired function into a single EXE). This is much simpler than writing anything in VFP, and it is light-weight, i.e., you don't have a big program running all the time.
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