John Hentsch wrote in a message to Charles Bowman:

CB> I think you would use "start /c /wait programname"  the /wait tells
CB> it to stop processing the bat/cmd/btm file until the program
CB> finishes. The /c tells it to close when finished.  (out of memory
CB> so I hope I'm close)

 JH> Hi Charles. The problem is I haven't found a way to have
 JH> 4DOS start two 4OS2 sessions, one running PPP.EXE and
 JH> another one to run VSOUP.EXE after PPP.EXE has successfully
 JH> connected to my ISP.

 JH> I can call 4OS2 session using HSTART.EXE now. However, I
 JH> would like to switch to a 4DOS method if I could somehow get
 JH> 4DOS to spawn 4OS2 sessions from a batch file.

I don't get it.  4DOS will spawn all the 4OS2 sessions you want?  If you
want to know if the modem has made a connection before loading VSOUP, you
can do that with a number of things, the first one that comes to mind is
the SU app that comes with the SIO comm driver package.  Do you run SIO?

                                              Jack 
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