5.0) Using Dcron
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This article is from the AmigaUUCP
FAQ, by Marc SCHAEFER,
5.0) Using Dcron
Many AmigaUUCP users leave their machines on 24 hours a day. With the advent of 2.0, and assuming the serial.device gets fixed, you can conceivably run your Amiga 24 hours a day under a heavy load for weeks without a crash.
DCron is a program that runs in the background and executes other programs at intervals defined in S:CRONTAB. It is quite flexible.. you can run a program or script at specific times of day, every X minutes, only on certain days of the week, or even only in certain months! I will not discuss the actual format, that can be looked up in UUMAN:DCron.
There are two reasons to run DCron:
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