Re: [OT] Screen (was Affecting Inst. Change)
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>:
>
> Yes, but competent OSs have batch queues for running such jobs. Why
> Unix has never had such a capability is beyond my understanding.
man batch: at, batch, atq, atrm - queue, examine or delete jobs for
later execution.
> (NO!! cron is *not* an adequate substitute for batch queues!)
cron's for regularly repeated jobs. batch and at are for sequential
job scheduling. I was running simulations with them in OSF/1 batch
queues in the early '90s.
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