Scripts that are already running

[Richard Gaskin]

zryip theSlug wrote:

> Threading is cool. But it depends of your needs.
> During more than 10 years I'm doing development and excepted specifics
> needs, the only need I have with thread is have a thread which sleep
> for an amount of time and wakeup to perform an action. In one hour,
> one day...
> In fact, nothing more than the send in time in LiveCode can do. And
> more elegantly.

cron can also be useful for that, at least for OS X and Linux.

What is the command-line equivalent of cron on Windows?

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