Programming dial-up coonection

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5 total messages Started by Derek Harvey Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:52

#3086

Author: Derek Harvey
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:52

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I hope this may be an appropriate group to which to pose this (simple!?) 
question:
How do I program a dial-up connection in BCB6? I.e., to an ISP where I have 
an account.

I have searched BCB6 Help and documentation and can find nothing about this 
level of connection; all the examples of ftp, mail, etc. work over an 
existing IP connection but seem to provide no way of making this connection 
if it is not there (and do not even detect this condition, it seems).

Can I either call one of the existing Network Connections from my program or 
otherwise write the code to do this, or is there a component somewhere to do 
this with appropriate parameters. My ISP (BT Yahoo) provides a highly 
protected dialler that may or may not prove too restrictive.

Thanks.
Dafydd, Wales, UK.

Re: Programming dial-up coonection

#3090

Author: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:26

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"Derek Harvey" <derekv.harvey@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:437bc5f3@newsgroups.borland.com...

> How do I program a dial-up connection in BCB6?
> I.e., to an ISP where I have an account.

Look at the RasGetEntryDialParams() and RasDial() functions in the Win32
API.

> I have searched BCB6 Help and documentation and
> can find nothing about this level of connection

You are looking in the wrong place.  You need to look in the Microsoft API
documentation, not Borland's documentation.


Gambit

Re: Programming dial-up coonection

#3094

Author: Derek Harvey
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:58

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Many thanks. I had looked at some MS documentation but found nothing 
apparently relevant in Index or Contents!. Having looked at some shareware 
offerings I now know that RAS are the magic letters.

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message 
news:437c30ce$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> "Derek Harvey" <derekv.harvey@btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:437bc5f3@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
>> How do I program a dial-up connection in BCB6?
>> I.e., to an ISP where I have an account.
>
> Look at the RasGetEntryDialParams() and RasDial() functions in the Win32
> API.
>
>> I have searched BCB6 Help and documentation and
>> can find nothing about this level of connection
>
> You are looking in the wrong place.  You need to look in the Microsoft API
> documentation, not Borland's documentation.
>
>
> Gambit
>
>

Re: Programming dial-up coonection

#3096

Author: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:09

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"Derek Harvey" <derekv.harvey@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:437cb66b@newsgroups.borland.com...

> Many thanks. I had looked at some MS documentation but
> found nothing apparently relevant in Index or Contents!

I assure you that those functions are in MS's documentation, and that the
function names are available in the index.  Are you sure that you are
looking in the right file?  You should be looking in win32.hlp.  OR, just go
to http://msdn.microsoft.com directly, which is more up to date anyway.


Gambit

Re: Programming dial-up coonection

#3115

Author: Derek Harvey
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:55

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Sorry if my wording caused confusion. _Before_ I looked for shareware (and 
found something I can adopt/adapt) I _had_ looked at the MS stuff without 
using RAS to search with. I do indeed now find a great deal of information 
in the MS documentation under RAS and am making good progress.

Thanks again.
Derek
"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message 
news:437cc837$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> "Derek Harvey" <derekv.harvey@btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:437cb66b@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
>> Many thanks. I had looked at some MS documentation but
>> found nothing apparently relevant in Index or Contents!
>
> I assure you that those functions are in MS's documentation, and that the
> function names are available in the index.  Are you sure that you are
> looking in the right file?  You should be looking in win32.hlp.  OR, just 
> go
> to http://msdn.microsoft.com directly, which is more up to date anyway.
>
>
> Gambit
>
>

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