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Scheduling Program
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| Im looking for a program in which I can input the nessaccary parameters and then it will automatically setup a schedule for me.
I really don't want to sit there and type all the stuff in, I want it so all I have to do is type in the numbers/letters and it will come up with a schedule.
Any ideas?
Thanks. | |
| dmaftei 2001-10-17, 10:29 am |
| On Unix you can use at or cron. I don't know about Windows. | |
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| Actually, this program is not for my use, It will be used in my dad's office. They need something very simple to use yet effective. | |
| ccieToBe 2001-10-17, 11:22 am |
| Cron's very usefull and fairly simple to use for someone comfortable with editing config files. I just did a quick search on Google and it looks like it's been ported to Windows. I'm sure someone's come out with a GUI for it, but in Unix all you do is edit the crontab file for the user who's account you want to run the automated task. You basically enter in the time and the command or script to run and that's it. Here's the FreeBSD man page for crontab. The syntax is basically the same no matter what OS you're running cron on. | |
| chunder 2001-10-17, 7:44 pm |
| at works in NT and 2k. but in both of those OSs it been improved with the scheduler (scheduled tasks). i believe it also exists in win9x as well.
from a command line, do at /? | |
| ccieToBe 2001-10-17, 8:26 pm |
| I forgot all about task scheduler, that might work too. I didn't know NT/2k had at. Hehe, I just finished wiping all the Win2k servers off my home network a few minutes ago so it's too late to test that out now  I'll check it out next time I'm in front of an NT/2k box. | |
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| Actually,
This is what I need...
A program that will take input such as "number of apples" and "number of people"
Then it will output on a weekly/monthly calender the info in this format...
| MON | TUE | WED | ...
P1 1 3 6
P2 1 3 6
P3 1 3 6
Pn 1 3 6
It will divide the apples into how many people it has and give each person a equal share.
That should clear things up 
Thanks for your help guys, appreciate it. | |
| ccieToBe 2001-10-19, 4:56 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by Azam
Actually,
This is what I need...
A program that will take input such as "number of apples" and "number of people"
Then it will output on a weekly/monthly calender the info in this format...
| MON | TUE | WED | ...
P1 1 3 6
P2 1 3 6
P3 1 3 6
Pn 1 3 6
It will divide the apples into how many people it has and give each person a equal share.
That should clear things up
Thanks for your help guys, appreciate it.
Following that analogy:
Someone would enter in how many apples and people there are each day and then at the end of the month the neccessary calculations would be made? I'm not very clear on what you're asking. | |
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| Sort of.
Someone would enter in the amount of apples and it would divide the apples equally into the number of people. And then output a daily, weekly, or even monthly calender of that info. Like how many apples each person eats in a day, week, and/or month.
Some guy at the office actually phoned me up and was asking for this sort of program, I really don't know what he is asking for, but judging from the kind of work they do, the program I stated above would fit their need perfectly.
I told them to use excel, but they said it takes too long... So I told them to make a template and just input the nessaccary info, but they said the calculations take too long
Anyways, any help on which s/w package can do this would be appreciated. | |
| ccieToBe 2001-10-20, 1:39 pm |
| That task sounds like the sorta thing that spread sheet programs like Excel are good at. I wonder why the caclulations take too long. It sounds like they're either dealing with a lot of data in which case they should use a more heavy duty application or they're using antiquated PCs. |
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