Susan,
 
We do this here all the time. We have unattended PCs that do automated
collection from time clocks, and they send their data back to the PC at
scheduled intervals without human intervention. Data transfers are
scheduled with a utility called Auto-Might, which runs under MS-DOS. We
use Auto-Might's menus to schedule the times during the week that we want
various actions to take place. Auto-Might "sleeps" in the background on
the PC, letting you use it for other purposes during the times that
nothing is scheduled to be run. When it is nearly time to run a scheduled
task, Auto-Might shows a pop-up menu that lets you launch the scheduled
job immediately, postpone it ("snooze" function), or cancel it. If nobody
responds to the menu, the task will launch in a few minutes.
 
On the Auto-Might menu, we tell it to run .BAT files. These in turn
launch WRQ scripts to log on, transfer files, make backups, etc.
 
I think this is still the current address for Auto-Might (anybody out
there please correct me if I'm wrong...)
 
The Pendulum Group, Inc.
333 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 1015
Englewood, Colorado 80110
(303) 781-0575
 
Hope this helps...
 
--
Alida Jatich, Sr. Pgmr./Analyst
Heinemann's Bakeries, Chicago IL