ml>> i've got cron utils and such... the problem is when the time for the
ml>> event passes while the machine is jambed or even turned off... i have
ml>> events that need to run as soon as the machine returns to operational
ml>> condition... crons won't do that... note that i'm speaking of things
ml>> that may not run but once a month or less... if the event time passes,
ml>> i don't want to have to wait for another month before it runs... i
ml>> need it to run now...

 ET> I've a REXX program that checks and/or writes the current
 ET> system date to an EA of a file of your choice and returns a
 ET> return code depending on whether it's already run today/this
 ET> month etc.

that's interesting... likely more OS/2 native than i'm implementing now...
what i'm doing now is based on a 4DOS btm file... it runs under 4DOS, 4OS2,
and even 4NT... i just need to upgrade the 4DOS version on the OS/2 box...
that's easy enough, though... just hate to have to do that reboot... i've
already got everything set, just need to xcopy it over...

thanks for the offer, though... hey! maybe you could post it in here or OS2REXX?

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