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

James Huang (james@sn.no)
Sat, 23 Nov 1996 17:52:09 +0100

In mail.yarn, article <Pgflyo3qBGlR092yn@airmail.net>,
pcrown@airmail.net (Phil Crown) wrote:

> 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.

Could you share that with us? I am running Windows NT but there should
not be anything in the way.

> 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.

You mean OrexxWin. I fetched that a couple of months back but have not
installed as yet. Was running Win NT Beta 2 then but now have upgraded
to the "final" release so it may be time to pack out the archive.

James