ADAM_TILGHMAN@bdt.UUCP (10/02/89)
Hi there! I am looking for a program that will execute a GEMDOS #0 command (terminate program) at a specific time... Is there such a beast? I am not very fluent in M68K assembly, which is what I would assume this type of program would have to be. The specific use for this program is to drop out of BBS Express! at a certain time to implement a homebrew networking package... Any feedback would be appreciated, but please post replies directly to the net, since my email address is flaky at best. Adam Tilghman
steve@thelake.UUCP (Steve Yelvington) (10/03/89)
In <152@bdt.UUCP> ADAM_TILGHMAN@bdt.UUCP writes... > Hi there! I am looking for a program that will execute a GEMDOS #0 command > (terminate program) at a specific time... Is there such a beast? I am not > very fluent in M68K assembly, which is what I would assume this type of > program would have to be. The specific use for this program is to > drop out of BBS Express! at a certain time to implement a homebrew networking > package... Any feedback would be appreciated, but please post replies > directly to the net, since my email address is flaky at best. > > Adam Tilghman GEMdos #0 (Pterm0) terminates the current process. All your program would do is kill itself, not the BBS. Ugly kludge solution: Write a DA or TSR that reboots the system when <time> arrives. Install autoboot software that checks the time and (if matched) runs the networker. Elegant solution: Take a great big magnet to BBS Express! Get STadel, which already supports timed events and multiple networks (including this one). Steve Yelvington, up at the lake in Minnesota ... pwcs.StPaul.GOV!stag!thelake!steve (Usenet) ... {playgrnd,moundst,class68}!thelake!steve (Citadel)
larserio@IFI.UIO.NO (LarsErikOsterud) (10/04/89)
Or he might change to MiniBBS which have built in a function to take the BBS down once a day if you want to.... Lars-Erik / ABK-BBS +47 2132659 / ____ ______ Osterud / larserio@ifi.uio.no / /___ / ____________/ _______________________/ ____/ /
alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera) (10/05/89)
In article <0902891449341740@thelake.UUCP> stag!thelake!steve@pwcs.stpaul.gov writes:
:In <152@bdt.UUCP> ADAM_TILGHMAN@bdt.UUCP writes...
:
:> Hi there! I am looking for a program that will execute a GEMDOS #0 command
:> (terminate program) at a specific time... Is there such a beast? I am not
:> very fluent in M68K assembly, which is what I would assume this type of
:> program would have to be. The specific use for this program is to
:> drop out of BBS Express! at a certain time to implement a homebrew networking
:> package... Any feedback would be appreciated, but please post replies
:> directly to the net, since my email address is flaky at best.
:>
:> Adam Tilghman
:
:GEMdos #0 (Pterm0) terminates the current process. All your program would
:do is kill itself, not the BBS.
By the way, what about a more consistent 'process' management in one of the
future releases of TOS ? I think it would be nice if resident programs would
kick themselves off the list when issuing Pterm(), not the last one launched.
I had this problem during developing terminal interfaces for a BBS. I had to
keep all the interfaces (called via trap interfaces) resident at the same
time {:-(
Is it possible for you to allow such a dynamic 'process' management (including
memory release after 'process' termination) under TOS, Atari ?
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