On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have been using Windows own TaskScheduler so far. What I don't > > like it is that it cannot run jobs silently at background, > > particularly when a job is a batch file or a bash script. Whenever > > such a job is started, an annoying DOS window pops up and it also > > occupies my taskbar. > > Running a Visual Basic program under wscript doesn't open a window. > > For example to run a sh script: > > --Begin P.vbs-- > > Dim objShell, intErr > > Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") > intErr = objShell.Run("C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe /c/somePath/P.sh", 0, True) > Wscript.Quit(intErr) > > --End P.vbs-- > > and schedule it as > > "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WSCRIPT.EXE //b c:\somePath\P.vbs" > > under the task scheduler.
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