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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions at reminder script Post 302560714 by Corona688 on Friday 30th of September 2011 04:02:39 PM
Old 09-30-2011
Show me exactly what you tried.

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Originally Posted by csharp100
That did not solve my problem. I may not have explained it correctly so I will try again.
I think I understood in the first place.

write is trying to terminal commands on a non-terminal device(being run from 'at', it has no terminal!) which isn't the end of the world, but also blabs error messages when it does, which isn't what you want.

The redirection I showed you ought to work, but may have gone into the wrong place, can you show me exactly what you tried?
 

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