Re: Souper vs. "doing it the old-fashioned way"

Phil Crown (pcrown@airmail.net)
Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:59:27 -0600

>One thing I didn't complete was steamlining my PPP/Winsock/Souper
>setup. I found it was more effort on my part collecting
>mail/news with Souper than with the uqwk method. With uqwk, I
>can drive the entire dial-in, login, collection, *and* logout
>with one double-click on my WFWG 3.11 icon. With Souper I found
>that my actual login time was longer as I simetimes forgot to
>disconnect my session. Has anyone got a nice and elegant setup
>for PPP/Winsock/Souper?

You can do the same thing with Soup.

I have Soup (VSoup for OS/2 actually) setup so *one* click will login,
get mail/news, and logout automatically.

I use a REXX queue so when Soup is finished getting mail/news, it
empties the queue, another script (the one that started PPP) checks the
queue every 10 seconds, when the queue is empty it knows there's no
reason to stay online and hangs up. There is a disadvange to this; if I
want to surf, ftp, telnet, then, I must get the software loaded (to put
a busy string in the queue) before all mail/news collection is
finished, or before the 10 seconds are up. Not a big deal, because I
can force a busy string onto the queue at any time to remain online.

btw, I'm running OS/2, but there is a REXX for Win95, and I believe its
freeware from IBM?? :-/ I can find a URL if you're interested.

>For those of us *still* using a comm program (Telix, ProComm, et.
>al.) to drive uqwk at the Unix command line, what does a program
>like Souper buy us?

Probably nothing, its just another method to do the same thing.
However, when logged on with PPP I can run a surf, ftp, telnet, and
download mail/news with soup all at the same time. At 14.4k its slow,
but possible. Can a shell account do more than one thing at a time?

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Phil Crown
pcrown@airmail.net
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