Category : Batch File Utilities - mostly for DOS
Archive   : SOSTB.ZIP
Filename : EVERYDAY.DOC

EVERYDAY.COM

EveryDay was written to facilitate automation of functions that ought to
be performed at regular intervals. When run from your AUTOEXEC.BAT file,
you can run any number of executable programs, batch files, or DOS commands
on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. This allows you to perform disk
maintenance, backups, sorts, and other utilities on a regular basis, without
having to remember when or how often to perform these tasks.

When EveryDay is run, it checks for whatever tasks need to be performed that
particular day, if any. If tasks are scheduled, the user is prompted as to
whether or not he desires to run them at that time. If the user answers NO,
he will be prompted at every boot-up, until the programmed tasks are completed.
This makes it easy for a consultant or PC manager to make sure that certain
functions are performed on a regular basis. Programmers can use it to
perform automatic source code backups each day.

Operation:

EveryDay is very simple to use. First of all, we recommend that it be
installed in a directory in your current dos path. Secondly, EveryDay is date
sensitive, so the date must be set to the current date prior to running the
program.

EveryDay needs at least one of the four following script files to operate.
These files can be produced with any editor or word processor ( in ascii mode ).
Script files MUST reside in the root directory of the current logged drive.

NORMAL.EVD -- list of programs, batch files, or DOS commands to be performed
on each computer boot-up.

DAILY.EVD -- list of programs, batch files, or DOS commands to be performed
on a once per day basis.

WEEKLY.EVD -- list of programs, batch files, or DOS commands to be performed
on a once per week basis.

MONTHLY.EVD -- list of programs, batch files, or DOS commands to be performed
on a once per month basis.


EXAMPLE OF SCRIPT FILE: ( This is a typical DAILY.EVD file )

* This is a comment (Any line preceded with an asterisk is not processed)
NDD /QUICK (Run Norton Disk Doctor)
SWEEP DEL *.BAK (SWEEP the current disk to delete .BAK files)
WORDBACK (Run batch file to back-up word processing data)


Each command MUST be on a seperate line, with no blank lines.

You can run any number of DOS commands, batch files, or executable programs
in any order.

You SHOULD NOT install TSR (memory resident programs with EveryDay)

EveryDay can NOT be run from a workstation without a hard disk. A hard disk,
( C: drive ) MUST be present in the system.

EveryDay has six possible optional command line parameters. If no command line
parameters are used, EveryDay will give you information only.


EVERYDAY /? - Help screen
EVERYDAY /A - Perform all due events AUTOMATICALLY
EVERYDAY /D - Perform DAILY events (override due date)
EVERYDAY /W - Perform WEEKLY events (override due date)
EVERYDAY /M - Perform MONTHLY events (override due date)
EVERYDAY /P - PROMPT before performing events.
EVERYDAY - INFORMATION ONLY.

Using any of the override modes will update the appropriate date(s) so that
from then on, the daily, weekly, or monthly events will take place 1, 7, or 30
days from the date the override mode was used.

For example, say you always want your weekly events to fall on Fridays. The
first time you run the program, it uses the current date for establishing
how many days it is until the next event. If you ran it for the first time on
a Monday, your weekly events would always come up on Mondays. To correct this,
you would run the program as; EVERYDAY /W on the next Friday. From then
on, all weekly events would take place on Fridays.

EveryDay automatically maintains a file called EVD.INF in the root directory.
This file contains data relating to the dates that the DAILY, WEEKLY, and
MONTHLY events were last run. If it does not exist, it will be created.
Each time an event occurs, the file is automatically updated.


Using EveryDay with PC-Sentry

EveryDay will take advantage of PC-Sentry's logging capabilities and place
log entries in the current PC-Sentry log file. EveryDay will keep permanent
records of each task performed by EveryDay, as well as the time it was
performed. It will also record the event due dates. EveryDay is a part of
the PC-Sentry package, but is usefull, and will run perfectly as a stand
alone program.