samperi@marob.masa.com (Dominick Samperi) (05/28/89)
I'm considering how one could use a 386 machine to schedule DOS subprocesses that start up a comm program with a script language, to interact with a remote service, download files, etc. Using DOS alone is messy: what happens when a scheduled task starts up while somebody else is using the machine?! I'd like to use some version of UNIX that has the capability of spawning DOS subprocesses. Has anybody used this facility to schedule DOS comm program sessions while the machine continues to be used for other purposes? A somewhat unrelated topic is RPC's: has anybody used RPC's in a heterogeneous network environment? UNIX and VMS mix, for example? Netwise's RPC generator? -- Dominick Samperi -- ESCC samperi@marob.masa.com uunet!hombre!samperi