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in thread program with a timer

An alternative for win xx users:

$five_mins = 300; while(not $exit_condition) { # Run LWP code here sleep($five_mins); }

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Re: Re: Re: program with a timer
by mrmick (Curate) on Jan 12, 2001 at 18:40 UTC
    On WINNT you can use their AT command to schedule programs to run. I've used it for automating cron-type jobs and it works reasonably well.

    Simply type  

    at/?
    in your DOS/command window to get more information.

    Mick
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