Script To Shut Down a Program At A Certain Time

Hi guys,
Unfortunately I have absolutely no knowledge of scripts so that's why I'm asking help for something which is probably simple.
I run a torrent program and I wish do quit it at a certain time when I am not around. Now, when you close the program, if there are transfers running it brings up a dialog box asking if you really wish to shut the program down. The torrent program is Transmission.
Is there any way that I can write a script to shut the program down for me?

I think you will need to do something with at
so to kill foo.app at 9 am
enter
at 0900 killall foo.app
from a terminal

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Make sure u have run the setEnv.cmd script.
ml wrote:
Hello,
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set CLASSPATH=.;
set CLASSPATH=d:\weblogic\classes\boot;%CLASSPATH%
set CLASSPATH=d:\weblogic\lib;%CLASSPATH%
set CLASSPATH=d:\weblogic\classes;%CLASSPATH%
java -classpath %CLASSPATH% weblogic.Admin http://localhost:80 SHUTDOWN
system weblogic
but it still give me an error :
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javax/naming/NamingException"
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