Subject: server addition

From: [email-masked] (Wayne E. Bouchard)
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 17:52:14 -0700

Everyone's been talking about what they'ld like in the next release, so I
thought I'ld throw in my two bits. One function that I would find usefull would
be an 'at()' function similar to the unix at which would allow (probably only
wizards) to set up a series of tasks to execute at a specefic time. so you
could say something like:

   at(15:00:00)
    .
    .
    .
( several statements to do various things such as gathering statistics on the
 database or perhaps setting the checkpoint time.)
    .
    .
    .
   endat

   So I guess it'ld work much like a fork except that it would execute at the
given hour minut and second specified.
   Well, it sounded like a good idea to me.

						Wayne

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From: Ryan Daum <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 20:03:46 -0700

>  database or perhaps setting the checkpoint time.)
	This is how CoolMUD does it's forking, but I really don't see the difference.

	Why not do something like?

	fork(time()+(15*60))
		your statements
	endfork

	It amounts to the same thing.