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Robert Goldstein
Eye Research Institute of Retina Foundation
20 Staniford St.
Boston, MA 02114
(617) 742-3140

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 This command file runs continuously. Its purpose is to automatically
queue nightly, monthly, and half-monthly processes. It is loaded with
our site-dependant processes and we are submitting it to DECUS with
the idea that the skeleton structure can be useful to other sites,
where they would replace our nightly processes with their own.
 It works by waking up every hour and checking the time. If it finds
that it is between 12am and 1am, it then submits the nightly work.
The nightly jobs are synchronized, so that the next one is not submitted
until the previous one is finished.
 After the nightly work is done, it then checks if it is the 1st day
of the month. If it is, then it submits the monthly jobs. The monthly
stuff is still unsynchronized, although we intend to synchronize them
at some point.
 The day is checked again, and the stuff for the 15th of the month
is also processed.