Hello Mads.

09 Oct 98 08:58, Mads Orbesen Troest wrote to Donnie Benners:

 MT> Why, Hello Donnie...

 MT> Replying to a message of Donnie Benners to Jonathan de Boyne Pollard:

 DB>> The app I'm working on is an automated FTP prpgram for getting
 DB>> Fidonet

 MT> You heard of InterNet REXX? It's a /very/ versatile
 MT> FTN-via-InterNet-by-whatever-means-possible (including FTP, email,
 MT> ...) and runs on both OS/2, Windoze and DOS. Might be worth looking
 MT> at. .-)

I'll look for it and see what it does. I wrote scripts for doing the FTP
mail a couple of years ago, but they won't do what I want to do now.

 DB>> I plan to have the dial ISP capability configurable. If you are
 DB>> already on a lan that has internet access, then it wouldn't run.

 MT> You can do as I suggested earlier, and query the PPP interface via an
 MT> IOCTL call on the stack. Quite the interface address, for example; if
 MT> the interface is not present, the call will fail. The PPP interface is
 MT> normally only present when having dialled and connected PPP
 MT> (surprise). :-) I don't remember the exact IOCTL call right here and
 MT> now, but I can dig into it if you can't find the information yourself.

Yes, thanks. I saved your message and will probably add that option when I
go back into the app again. Right now, I'm usign SL/IP for my connections
since it's faster on my machine (in dialing the modem). PPP generally waits
about 2-3 minutes before it decides to dial the phone...

Donnie

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