Unisched is a fully year 2000 compliant scheduler software that has been designed with special consideration of the needs of a Fidonet node system. To cut it short: Unisched can react to various kinds of events with various actions. Possible events are:

• time controlled events (for example: every day at 15:00, the first of each month at 10:00, every 30 minutes...)
• the creation of sempahore files / flag files by other programs
• new mail has been received in the mailer's inbound directory
• a function key has been pressed at the Unisched console

Possible actions are:

• An external program, batch file, script, Workplace Shell object (in the OS/2 version) can be started
• Unisched can exit with a certain error level
• Unisched can modify a Binkley style static outbound (create a poll, change the flavour of a mail packet...)
• Others (like playing music, creating flag files, deleting flag files...)

Unisched is intended to be a powerful program built around a simple and easily intelligible concept. In order to fully understand the event-action concept of Unisched, I suggest that you carefully read the documentation, but at least you should read section 3.3. Unisched is not like other schedulers, so you will surely profit from reading the docs :-).

Unisched is available as a 16 bit DOS executable (which is multitasking aware and has been successfully tested unter plain DOS, DESQview, Windows 95, Windows NT and OS/2) and of course as 32 bit native OS/2 executable (UNISCHE2.EXE). If you use the DOS executable, SHARE.EXE or a similar support for file locking MUST be active!