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From: kthompso@netcom.com (Kevin Thompson)
Subject: Re: Batchlike Jobs with VW in Unix ????
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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 18:25:12 GMT
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In article <81FYBCYU@inka.de>, Markus Arikan <markus@arikan.inka.de> wrote:
>we want to migrate from our mainframe environment to a c/s
>environment. We're discussing to use VisualWorks for the migration of the
>host based cobol apps. Now we have many large batchjobs running at night
>(e.g. acoounting updates, report generation).  Is it possible to start VW
>apps via crontab without any dialogs and to close those apps after
>successful execution ???

Ask for headless.st from Parcplace, an unsupported set of patches that allow
you to run VW with input from a TTY connection, or an input file, etc.  When I
last played with it I couldn't get it to start up, run some commands, then
quit all without user intervention ... so I just always keep one X server
running and have my 3a.m. crontab's display there, works fine.  You can just
patch the parsing of command lines to read a -quit or some such.

Kevin
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