At 07:30 13/06/02 -0400, Adams, Jeff wrote :-

>Gordon,
>
>Yes, parallel means you can run tasks at the same time.
>
>Let's say you have a task you want to run at 1AM and another 2AM.  But 
>what if the 1AM task takes four hours?  Without running the tasks in 
>parallel, your 2AM job would not start until 5AM.
>
>Where you would not want a task running in parallel is when its execution 
>is dependent on the results of a pervious task.  For example, first you 
>must rotate your logs before you generate reports on them.
>
>-Jeff

Thanks.. - Any tasks I've done so far, only lasted 5-10 minutes each..  but 
a task taking 4 hours ?

Thats big.

No worries...

<Curious mode : Off >
G.

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