Actually, the detials of what I want to do are thus:
unattended home machine:
Dial into ISP
Download mail and news
zip mail and news
rename to some sequence to not overwrite previously downloaded packets
When I dial in:
Download packets
Reset counter so that the next set of packets are renamed starting at the
beginning
I can write batch files to do most of it, but dialing in, hanging up, and
the sequencing is killing me. I've gotten some good suggestions for
handling the dialer, but as the the sequencing, I'm stuck. I can hardcode
it (i.e.if exist packet2 ren packet2 packet3, etc.) but I'd rather find a
way to automate this. I'm pretty sure that I can use Windows Scripting Host
to do most of this, since it uses VBScript, but I don't know VB very well.
As usual, any suggestions appreciated.
Mark
In article <JRec3gzkgulK092yn@efn.org>,
sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes) wrote:
->In article <ECVc3I3FlJcb092yn@interactive.net>,
->woody@interactive.net (Mark Weinstock) wrote:
->>this isn't totally a Yarn question, but I didn't know where else to check.
->>I'm on the road quite a bit, and can only dial in to my ISP once a day or
->>so. Many of the newsgroups I subscribe to get purged pretty frequently from
->>my ISP's news server. What I'd like to do is set up my home machine to dial
->>into my ISP, download the news from the various groups to SOUP packets, and
->>store them for me to later pick up by dialing into my home machine.
->
->One approach would be to use a telnet client with a good scripting language.
->One such is Zoc (http://www.emtec.com), shareware but fairly expensive.
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