Re: Life without shell accounts? Help.

From: Mike Fieschko (fieschko@viconet.com)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 11:30:27 -0500

In article <hXI90YI7xtSM091yn@cpcug.org>,
on Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:58:09 -0500,
rronkin@cpcug.org (R. R. Ronkin) wrote:

[snip]

>Now my ISP is abandoning shell accounts and offers Dynamic PPP
>instead. Other ISPs rarely offer shell accounts, and I am now asking
>you whether it is possible to use Yarn without one, and just how.
>For example, can I connect with a dialling program like Warp's DOIP
>and then invoke a reconfigured Yarn? Many thanks for your comments.

I use injoy as my dialer (my ISP uses some Win95 authentication that
I couldn't get the IBM DOIP to handle.

With injoy, I am able to autostart programs when PPP is up. For the
default dialin (which injoy automatically runs when injoy is
launched), I have a .cmd file to run vsoup for mail and news, cd to
\yarn2 and run import, the vsoup to send mail and posts.

BTW, if I want to ftp a file, ncftp runs with a command line like this
(which I add into the .cmd):

ncftp -L -C ftp.matrox.com:/pub/mga/millennm/os2/1696_204.zip

Then, with setting the scheduler in the injoy settings notebook, I can
run injoy at night to do all of this.

-- 
"I revert to the doctrinal methods of the thirteenth century, inspired
by the general hope of getting something done."  [G.K. Chesterton, in
Heretics]

Mike Fieschko, who lives in West Orange, New Jersey, USA fieschko@viconet.com