William Mastop wrote in a message to All:
 WM> Alright, after one week connected to the internet, and with
 WM> the outstanding help of some of the people here, I've got my
 WM> os/2 warp system running maximus and binkley to exit from
 WM> binkley at 3 a.m., dial up my internet provider using
 WM> ppp.exe, download all the newsgroups I want (using vsoup)
 WM> and hanging up, then tossing the groups to bbs areas (using
 WM> sqtool) and restarting the bbs.  Of course, I can't possibly
 WM> leave well enough alone, and now would like to set things up
 WM> to also dial up my isp, and then use ftp to connect to other
 WM> boards, to pick up mail, or game packets, or what have you,
 WM> and upload any I have for them to their incoming directory. 
 WM> I don't know much about ftp.  I did use ftpd to make the ftp
 WM> connection and used ftppm to contact juge.com, and it
 WM> worked.  Other than that, I have no clue as to what to do. 
 WM> How are others doing this?  I want to stay away from dos
 WM> apps. Any help at all would be appreciated.
I use FiFTP to do all my automated FTP sessions. I use it extensively to pull 
my FIDO mail from George Peace. You can also use NcFTP as it has scripting 
and macro capability. 
Lastly, make sure you aren't doing something silly like keep your BBS offline 
while you toss mail. You run a multitasking system, multitask! My motto, at 
least one thread for every task, and for some tasks more!
Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.mhv.net
... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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