Nando Dessena wrote:

> Lately I have been having exactly the same dilemma for an application
> of mine: use the system scheduler or roll my own? Once all the pros
> and cons of the two alternatives were written down, the system
> scheduler won hands down. This rules out plain Windows 98 but that's a
> favour I do to my customers, not a disservice.

There is a Task Scheduler on Win98 which is also part of the system. You
can put complex stuff in .bat files and make it run that. But who's
brave enough to leave Win98 running 24/7? In fact, it's internal time
manager has a counter that makes Windows restart every 43 days (or
something like that).

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