In article <y/6c3I3FlhlT092yn@interactive.net>, woody@interactive.net (Mark Weinstock) wrote: >Unfortunately, telnet's not an option. My ISP decided that they didn't like >people who know anything about computers on their system so no more >telnetting. That actually also shut doen their *.generacl newsgroup as >well, but that's another story. > >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. > > >-- >Mark woody@interactive.net mw4j@andrew.cmu.edu >****************************************************************** >Created using Yarn version 0.92 on Jun 25, 1999 >Additional effects by YES version 0.22 >****************************************************************** >
There is a program which will log all your keystrokes in windows, I know it
exists, but I cannot find the name. If I find it I will let you know.
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Sincerely,
Andrew.
We have the most [thorough] test guy in the world... [I showed him this
program and he asked,] 'but Rob, what if time runs backward?'"