In a message to John Hentsch  Charles Bowman wrote:

CB> Then allow me to suggest a variation on something that I've used in
CB> the past.  Have 4dos spawn an OS/2 session with a *.btm (or *.cmd)
CB> that runs ppp.exe, then pings your ISP.  When ping returns
CB> errorlevel 0 then it uses a goto to spawn the vsoup process from
CB> that same command file.

Hi Charles. I've been thinking about the 4DOS commands you guys have
showed me here and I understand how it could be done now. I do have all
the logic setup aready in a BTM now but I've been using Hstart and
Hwait. I now see were I could switch to using 4DOS commands to do the
same thing.

Thanks,
jh -
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