Capture once a day 1

[anniezane]

I have Procomm booting up with capture on and have been trying to write a script to cut the capture off at midnight and then back on moments later. I found the script listed below and complied it OK but when I try checking it by changing the date it does not work.

PROC MAIN

when $date call PROC newdate
endproc

PROC newdate
capture off
capture on

endproc

Can anyone help?

 

[knob]

The problem is that the script will run and then quickly end. You need to add a loop of some sort after the when command so that the script keeps executing. Probably the best for your task would be:

while 1
yield
endwhile


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[DMS500Tech]

I solved this issue by modifying the stock Datecap.was file by removing all interacion and adding the following to the bottom of it. The script shuts down every night @ 23:59:55 Procomm then closes.Then I use Windows task manager to start it back up at 00:01:00 and launch the modified Datecap.wax script which opens a new capture file with todays date as the name. The script is fairly long but I will share it with anyone who would like the whole thing. The script has been running everyday for 14 months without a problem.
As a side note I also put the same task in the task manager to launch on reboot. This has also worked without a flaw.

proc ReStart
capture on
timestr = "23:59:55" ;Time to wait for
waituntil TimeStr
capture off
pause 1
endproc

proc Shutdown
pwexit
endproc