Re: [MacPerl] Cron

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 14.11 -0500 1999.02.16, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
>A very long time ago, around the time of the transition from Perl 4 to
>Perl 5, using sleep() used to simply hang the Mac (my 68030 Powerbook,
>at least) for the number of seconds specified.  You got no response,
>not even from the mouse as I recall, until the sleep time expired.
>Matthias fixed that a long time ago.  It should certainly not be a
>problem with current version of MacPerl.

Ah, which is why I don't see a problem.  :)

>Personally I'd use a Cron clone rather than tie up MacPerl.

Well, saving it as a runtime was a way I could specifically _not_ tie up
MacPerl; so when scripts are executed throughout the day, 1. MacPerl does
not get pulled to the front, and 2. MacPerl does not execute a script while
I am using the app for something else.

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