Re: Souper vs. "doing it the old-fashioned way"
Phil Crown (pcrown@airmail.net)
Sat, 23 Nov 1996 13:42:23 -0600
>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.
Yes, I've been meaning to get it all togather and put it on my web
page. I'll start on it and post here when its ready.
There is one thing that may be a problem. Does Win have an equivalent
of the "detach" command in OS/2?
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Phil Crown
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