Scheduled tasks in the Win32 environment (where Win32 > Win98 et al.) are dealt with via the Scheduler service, which must be running.

You enter commands to be run via a console program named at -- no relation to the Unix command of the same name. You could bundle up calls to it via the system call I guess. Come to think of it, that would probably be a good way to have to avoid learning at's syntax. I have to consult the documentation each time I use it. Otherwise I assume one could play around with registry keys, but you would have to be brave to insist on that approach.

On the other hand, Unix systems use a different facility, named cron. There are many ports of cron to Win32. belg4mit has even written a version in Perl. Play with super search for nodes on the subject.

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