At 18.50 1998.04.22, Peter Prymmer wrote: >One thing recommended to me was to use a shareware version of cron >for the Mac (available from Mac-Info sites IIRC). I used it >(years ago now) to have a MacPerl script retreive a "daily report" >type web page every morning at 4:00 AM with no trouble. To re-iterate: >the scheduling was done by "cron", sockets and file handling was >done by MacPerl. This might be the way for you to proceed. Yes, I use cron for various things on my Mac to trigger MacPerl scripts at certain times of the day. -- Chris Nandor mailto:pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ %PGPKey=('B76E72AD',[1024,'0824 090B CE73 CA10 1FF7 7F13 8180 B6B6']) #== New Book: MacPerl: Power and Ease ==# #== Publishing Date: Early 1998. http://www.ptf.com/macperl/ ==# ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch