Jason Dodson wrote:

>There has been a patch for that for a good... 7 years.
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>>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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Ok.

Theorical limits apart...

Who will let in these days a machine running win98 to be a server of
anything ?

The worst scenario that I can think of is if that machine is the
Secretary machine too. So every time she plays a MP3 the server start
crawling or when the printer goes crazy (because a print job was not
finished and someone turned it off) and start to print garbage and
someone thinks it's necessary to restart that "server" so every other
user losts the connection.

Maybe a good thing to see will be Outlook express compacting it's
folders and start listen to the people complaining about the queries
being slow :-)

No serious DBA, network admin or software developer , the type of people
that cares to write scripts to make routine tasks automatically will use
a win98 machine as a server.

I live in Brazil a country with continental dimensions and even bigger
social and economic discrepancies, there is a lot of extremely large
companies and a lot of very small companies. I developed systems for the
both end (I have a very few large costumers and some medium and some
small companies), even the smallest that brougth a gray Pentium MMX 300
with 32MB RAM and 4GB IDE disk a half decade ago (or earlier) at the
nearest shop and where I don't put my feet for the almost same time,
uses Redhat 5 (I think) on a dedicated machine. I know this is no ideal,
but he uses this server as FB server and Samba server. But it's far
better than let it run win98 and share it's disc.

For and embedded database in a single user application, I think it's
possible, but this kind of application will not run 24x7 and I don't
think these kind of applications are the ones that will beneffit from a
task scheduler.

see you !

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Alexandre Benson Smith
Development
THOR Software e Comercial Ltda
Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil
www.thorsoftware.com.br