-=> Quoting Bob Holiday to All <=-
 BH> Hello All!
 BH> I've been using PPPDIAL.CMD v31 with Binkleyterm/2 XR4 to dial into my
 BH> temporary provider AT&T worldnet, and ftp to a site to download some
 BH> message files.  Right now I have it setup as a function key exit from
 BH> Binkleyterm, in order to test this connection before I automate it.
 BH> Problem I'm having is that PPPDIAL doesn't seem to time out.  Looking
 BH> over the REXX code in PPPDIAL, it looks as though it should time out
 BH> after 1.5 minutes of inactivity.  Does anyone have PPPDIAL timing out
 BH> properly?  Am I NOT doing something right, or forgetting something? 
I noticed that pppdial would sometimes not timeout.  It acted as it was
missing the "NO CARRIER" or "BUSY" message, but I'm not sure.
I ended up writing my own rexx script kill ppp (and pppdial.cmd) and
start all over.  It also does some other things specific to my system,
such as creating a RxQueue for some IPC.  Here's the basic idea;
/* pppon.cmd */
do forever
   'detach ppp.exe ... 2>&1 >\tmp\ppplog.txt'
    sleep 30 seconds
    ping host 10 times
    if successful then leave
    kill ppp
    sleep 10 seconds
end
do forever
    check rxqueue for busy string(s)
    if none then leave
    sleep 5
end
kill ppp
This was with pppdial v2.8, it may be fixed in v2.9 or v3.0.
Phil Crown  pcrown@airmail.net  http://web2.airmail.net/pcrown/
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