BackgrounDRB

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Hi all,

I'm developing on windows, and I need to do task scheduling.

BackgrounDRB seems to be the right solution, but it doesn't work for windows...

The question is: what's your suggestion for any BackgrounDRB alternative under windows?

Thanks in Advance

Stefano

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Hi Stefano,

Stefano Bonomi wrote:

I'm developing on windows, and I need to do task scheduling.

BackgrounDRB seems to be the right solution, but it doesn't work for windows...

The new version doesn't work for Windows, but the original version does. It may suit your needs. OTOH, 'task scheduling' makes me think of cron first, not BackgrounDRb. BackgrounDRb is typically used for offloading long running tasks.

HTH, Bill

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Bill Walton wrote:

Hi Stefano,

Stefano Bonomi wrote:

I'm developing on windows, and I need to do task scheduling.

BackgrounDRB seems to be the right solution, but it doesn't work for windows...

The new version doesn't work for Windows, but the original version does. It may suit your needs. OTOH, 'task scheduling' makes me think of cron first, not BackgrounDRb. BackgrounDRb is typically used for offloading long running tasks.

HTH, Bill

Many thanks Bill,

I'll investigate both CRON (hopefully it work for windows) and the original version of BackgrounDRb as you suggest.

Greetings

Stefano

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Nope. Cron is a *nix tool too. Look into AT, which is the Windows version of cron.

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Steve Ross wrote:

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I'm not using Windows, but you might look into:

Also see:

http://www.kalab.com/freeware/cron/cron.htm http://cronw.sourceforge.net/ http://surguy.net/articles/icron.xml

Although YMMV.

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Steve Ross wrote: