kcron missing?

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Wed Apr 15 05:41:54 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 22:11 -0400, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
> > Sorry, I should have mentioned I'm running Intrepid. Yet, since I'm
> > learning ten dozen other things, and I've learned how to use kcron, I am
> > somewhat reticent to ditch all of my kcron scripts just to learn another
> > CMD line version of what used to work just fine. 
> 
> There's no such thing as a kron script.  It's just a GUI for cron.  And
> cron is not "another CMD line version".  It's the /original/
> command-line version (or at least the same interface as the original). :)

Thanks! I do know what cron is, the gui is far handier, especially for
setting up dates and times without remembering the command line
switches. If I wanted command line, I would have stuck with cp/m.
Imagine that running on an AMD64 system with 4 megs of memory. Supercalc
would fly! Or dBaseII? <chuckles> Ric

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