Distributed.NET and DCypher.NET both provide clients that minimize to the
systray. This also causes them to run without DOS overhead. I know it's only
.1% but that .1% (as measured by WinTop) could be put to more productive use)!
Perhaps they would be willing to help if we contacted them. Distributed's
client will also run as a service in 9x and NT.
Jeff Gilchrist wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: B.K. DeLong [mailto:bkdelong@pobox.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 9:05 AM
> To: ecdl-list@pauillac.inria.fr
> Subject: 30 PC lab to join the effort
>
> > I have the ability to add 30-50 PCs to this effort but in
> > order to allow the software to run, I need to find away to
> > get the MS DOS window to minimize to the systray or to run
> > totally in the background unbeknownst to the user.
>
> Another thing that would be very useful is for the win32 version to be able
> to run as a service in NT so it could run in the background constantly even
> when there are no users logged into the system.
>
> I've never created an NT service before so I don't think I would be much
> help here, does anyone out there have experience doing this?
>
> Jeff.
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