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at-ng

Registered 2009-08-12 by Bernd "Siggy" Brentrup

The at & batch commands and atd daemon appeared in early versions of
Unix, I seem to remember to have used it on a PDP11/60 running Unix
release 6 in the early 80s. at-ng is a rewrite from scratch that
tries to address most known issues with the traditional suite of
commands.

Even back in 2000 when I maintained Debian's at package, I found the
code base almost unmaintainable and began rewriting it from scratch.
Because of a paid job demanding not to work on OSS stuff it never got
completed. When Debian's at package got orphaned recently
(Debian Bug#541013) I noticed it had collected a lot of bug reports over the
years and thought of closing an extremely long standing open end.

AFAICT from memory here are some enhancements over traditional
at implementations:

- allow input from file or editor instead of stdin,

- allow already submitted jobs to be edited,

- allow arbitrary interpreters, not just /bin/sh,

- client/server approach, clients submit jobs via
Unix domain socket.

I'm open to any suggestions, active help &c; in particular
I appreciate very much any corrections on these texts from
native English speakers.

If you want to participate, consider joining the team, atm it's
my one-man-show. If you only want to suggest features not mentioned,
please file a wishlist bug report.