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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:46:09 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Fire Windows programs using cron...
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:59:32PM +0100, Evgeny Apanasenko wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I've set up cron to fire W2K GUI program ntbackup.exe. Everything works but
> I would like the program to interact with GUI display and keyboard (now I
> can't see the program window when it is working). How can I do this?

You would have to switch on the `Allow service to interact with
desktop' facility to the cron service.  That would result in
a console window always visible when cron is runing, though.

Actually, cron isn't designed to start GUI apps.

Corinna

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