[BC] Starguide III Channel Switching

[Cowboy]

On Monday 03 July 2006 02:00 pm, Bailey, Scott wrote:
> 
> I have a situation where on Saturday Night, we are taking a program from
> Westwood One that is one of their other 24/7 service formats. I have a
> cable connected to the M & C port, going to the on air computer. I can
> write the commands in the windows hyper terminal, and the Starguide will
> switch to the select service. I need this to occur on a certain day
> (Saturday), at an exact time.
> 
> Is there a program I download or buy to control the M & C Serial port on
> my Starguide III, and make it do timed commands?

 Now, here's a question :

 Of course any *nix can do this easily, but what's the problem with writing
 a batch file, and calling it from windows task scheduler ?

 Is it just that no version of Windows ( except WinCE-3 and above ) are actually
 real time, or is it something else ?

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Cowboy