[ Jeff Higgins ] What does the /Daily switch do?

[James Whitted / Symantec]

On 11 Sep 1998 16:33:14 GMT, Jeff Higgins wrote:

>Configuration Information:
> Platform: DOS & Windows 3.x
> Network type: Novell
> Version of norton antivirus: 4.0
>
>Greetings, I've noticed that my autoexec.bat file now has a /daily
>switch (ie: C:\NAV\NAV.EXE C:\ /DAILY). The main difference I notice
>is that the progress screen does not show up. What does the /Daily
>switch do to the running of the nav.exe program? I'm hoping that the
>only difference is that it doesn't display the progress screen. With
>the /Daily switch on the command line, nav.exe does run faster too.
>I'm running version 4.08. Any help as to what this switch really
>does would be greatly appreciated.
>Regards, Jeff

Hi Jeff,

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[David Lucas (Symantec)]

On Tue, 15 Sep 1998 22:21:08 GMT, j_wh...@symantec.com (James
Whitted / Symantec) wrote:

>On 11 Sep 1998 16:33:14 GMT, Jeff Higgins wrote:
>
>>Configuration Information:
>> Platform: DOS & Windows 3.x
>> Network type: Novell
>> Version of norton antivirus: 4.0
>>
>>Greetings, I've noticed that my autoexec.bat file now has a /daily
>>switch (ie: C:\NAV\NAV.EXE C:\ /DAILY). The main difference I notice
>>is that the progress screen does not show up. What does the /Daily
>>switch do to the running of the nav.exe program? I'm hoping that the
>>only difference is that it doesn't display the progress screen. With
>>the /Daily switch on the command line, nav.exe does run faster too.
>>I'm running version 4.08. Any help as to what this switch really
>>does would be greatly appreciated.
>>Regards, Jeff
>

Hi Jeff,

The following information is what the /Daily switch does:
/DAILY - ensures that the program runs only once per calendar day.
Thus if the computer is rebooted several times a day, the scanner will
only run for the first boot.

Please let me know what you find.

David Lucas