Recent content by MarionX

Is it possible to get a version of the old simple ptile program for the Mac? MarionD

I have an IMac with OS 10.5. I have created a backup program that I want to run every Sunday morning. My crontab reads 0 tab 10 tab * tab * tab 0 tab /User/mariondeckert/BackupProg.app I have tried everything I can think of but cron will not fire. If it is 9:45 on Sat. and I change...

Thanks much for the reply -- I am properly embarassed. But I still have one question. I am using a Memorex -rw CD with a 700 mg rating. I have a Burn Folder of 16.5 mg. When I turn it to a read/write Burn Folder.dmg it is 27.4 mg. When I burn this .dmg onto my blank disk, checking "Leave...

I am trying to burn a text folder to a CD. I have an IMAC with OS 10.5.8, I have a correct burn folder on the desktop. I also have an untitled CD icon on the desktop (However Finder does not show a CD disk drive). When I try to use Disk Utility to burn the Burn Folder to the CD I get an...

I have very little experience with cron. However, you can have a personal crontab, you need not be root to create crontabs. If you have a crontab file, Mycrontab, in your home (personal) directory you can go to terminal and enter the command "crontab Mycrontab" and OS will create a crontab...

I have an applescript Test.app in my home directory (OS 10.5.8). I want to use it to test the use of crontab. I have the following file (Mycrontab.rtf) in my home directory (mariondeckert). The file is as follows: SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin HOME=/var/log #...