[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Fwd: Re: [Mark/Space Support #544941]: Missing Sync for PalmOS

[Brad Knowles]

At 7:24 AM -0700 2005-08-15, William Laven wrote:

>  What are the "cron" routines. people often speak of. I run disk
>  permissions periodically, but is there more.

	Cron is the ancient Unix utility for scheduling things to be done 
at certain times of the day, days of the week or month, etc.... 
MacOS X is Unix with a pretty face, and cron goes back to the very 
early days of Unix.

	I'm sure that someone has created GUI interfaces to cron, but 
most of the normal interaction with cron goes through the command 
line.  Try going to a terminal window and typing "man cron".

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