I've been lurking on this list for about a year and a half now. Seems
like just about all of my questions were answered (and asked) by others
while I was running under OS/2, but now I've got a couple issues I
could really use some advice on in the Win95 environment:
1. Using Souper95 to pull the mail/news in, I've not found a way to
get it to exit "cleanly" before it would normally finish on its own, to
the batch file which then imports the mail & news. Using Souper for
OS/2, I found it convenient at times to hit Ctrl-C to get Souper to
stop pulling stuff in (for example, if an email msg had come in), so I
could read the message quicker.
Under Souper95, if I hit Ctrl-C, Win95 comes up and says the program is
being closed because an illegal operation had been performed. Needless
to say, it doesn't leave the area and soup files in a way that import
can readily work with them, like it did under OS/2. Using Ctrl-Break
just makes it plain EXIT, still leaving things rather messy for Import.
Does anybody know of a way to get Souper95 to cleanly exit, closing the
temporary soup files, writing the areas file, etc., so import will
import what has been pulled in?
2. Scripting - this isn't really a Souper question, I guess it's more
of a Win95 question - under OS/2, I had some rather nice PPPDial
scripts written that would automagically dial up my ISP, start a
background Souper session to pull the mail/news in, import, close,
cleanly kill the net connection, and restart BinkleyTerm.
Has anybody done anything like this in Win95? Are there any
PPPDial-type or other Dialup Networking scripting utils I can get to
accomplish the same thing? Anybody feel like posting theirs? <grin>
Thanks in advance everybody.
Vince
vincew@sprintmail.com