RR and FileMaker

[Dave Cole]

At 12:20 PM +0000 3/26/03, Gary Rathbone wrote:
>As ever, there are other ways. Often when I look at how I can 'streamline'
>tasks like this then I take a look at how long the task takes me over a
>given period, say a year. I then take a guess at how long it would take me
>to write an app to do it 'automatically', if its significantly longer then
>generally I don't bother. Unless of course I've got some spare time and can
>see how learning such a system would be benefical for other projects.

i also use this equation but add one more factor: will i *forget* to 
do something? rolling logs on a specific day of the (month, week, 
year), executing a database dump at a specific time ...

cron has been very good to me over the years.

\dmc