Dan,
the way MacOS X and other Unixes schedule tasks is the way of
cronjobs, cron is a nice tool that comes bundled with all *nix and
MacOS X that allows you to launch apps and processess using all kinds
of calendar tricks, repetition and whatever... there are lots of info
on cron on the web, and the format of the crontab file (the
configuration file for cron) is pretty easy, it's plain text, one
entry per line, very easy.
cheers
andre
On Dec 27, 2005, at 7:16 AM, Dan Shafer wrote:
This may be common knowledge among OS X folks but since it was a
new thought
to me, I figured I'd share it anyway.
If you want to launch a Rev standalone app (or, for that matter,
Rev itself)
at a specific date and time in OS X, you can do so simply by using
iCal to
define an alarm for that date/time and set its behavior to "open
file".
Select your app from the list of apps available to be opened
(usually this
means using "other..." at the end of that menu). By defining a
repeating
event, you can have the app launch as often as needed.
For all I know there's some equivalent way to do this using Outlook on
Windows. I'll leave that to the Windows dudes and dudettes.
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