From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Dec 15 20:27:15 2003
Subject: Re: Octave scripts from Windows Task Scheduler
From: Andy Adler <adler at site dot uottawa dot ca>
To: "Ashman,Tim [PYR]" <Tim dot Ashman at ec dot gc dot ca>
cc: "'help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu'" <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:26:50 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Ashman,Tim [PYR] wrote:

> Is it possible to run an Octave script from the Windows Task Scheduler? I
> have some scripts located in my "GNU Octave 2.1.50" directory that I wish to
> run daily. I have tried the crontab approach (I also have Cygwin installed
> on my windows 2000 machine, independently of my Octave build) but have been
> unsuccessful in doing so. Any hints on using Scheduled Tasks?

I did a project like this in 2000 (with an older version of octave),
and it worked fine. The key idea is to use the 'srvany.exe' to turn
an arbirary executable to a windows service.

More info on srvany is available on a google search or msdn.

Andy



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