[sdw2003] At the Command Line

[Kinzer, Lowell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com [mailto:sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com] On
> Behalf Of Todd Walton
> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 7:16 AM
> To: San Diego Windows 2003 User Group
> Subject: [sdw2003] At the Command Line
> 
[snip]
> A more precise search for "microsoft at command" leads me to a
> microsoft.com page.  Ah!  Now I see.  My time should be 24 hour
> format, like I have it, but with a colon in there.  The /every needs
> just a single letter (or "th" for Thursdays and "su" for Sundays).
> But aagh, it still won't work.  Why??  Much searching later, I get it.
>  I shouldn't say "time 01:30", I should just say "01:30".

I wouldn't be surprised if the help in at.exe hasn't been updated since it was introduced in Windows NT. However, more complete help information for the AT command is available in Windows "Help and Support" feature (in XP, it's at Start -> Help and Support). For example,

Hours:Minutes 
Specifies the time when you want to run the command. Time is expressed as Hours:Minutes in 24-hour notation (that is, 00:00 [midnight] through 23:59).

and:

/every: 
Runs Command on every specified day or days of the week or month (for example, every Thursday, or the third day of every month). 

Date 
Specifies the date when you want to run the command. You can specify one or more days of the week (that is, type M,T,W,Th,F,S,Su) or one or more days of the month (that is, type 1 through 31). Separate multiple date entries with commas. If you omit Date, at uses the current day of the month.

We've become so accustomed to searching the 'net for a solution that we sometimes forget about local resources.

Cheers,

Lowell

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Lowell Kinzer
lkinzer at ucsd.edu