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

Phil Crown (pcrown@airmail.net)
Sun, 24 Nov 1996 12:54:02 -0600

>>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.
>
>Care to share your REXXwonderscripts with us here? I am doing shell
>now, but want to move to VSoup as well (and keep shell with the
>.newsrc's synchronized).

Yes, but it will take a while to get everything setup so its suitable
for public release.

I have more than just the RxQueue. :-)

I also have access to news.dat serialized with mutex semaphores called
from Rexx with a Rexx DLL I wrote. This way if some app (yarn, import,
expire, uudeview) wants to access news.dat it will block, using no CPU
cycles, and begin running as soon as the app that is using news.dat
ends.

>Can you show us how it can be done using DOIP (Dial Other
>Int.Provider), pppdial.cmd, and your scripts with VSoup, all the way
>through import/expire functions?

Yes, but I don't use DOIP or any of the IBM dialers. I just use a Rexx
script to detach ppp and pppdial.cmd.

I also use two other freeware programs, GO! v1.5 (to kill ppp) and
Nolist v2.0a to remove apps (scripts remove themselves) from the
Alt-Esc round-robin.

go_15.zip is at hobbes in /textutil/, nolist is too, and also on Tim
Middleton's Bells and Whistles/2 Page (forget the archive name
ns*2*.zip, nl*2*.zip).

I've started getting everything ready and will post a message here
when its ready.

-- 
Phil Crown
pcrown@airmail.net
http://web2.airmail.net/pcrown/