Why, Hello Donnie...

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 Fidonet

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

 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.

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

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