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From: Andrew Bennett
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 00:00

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On Sun, 02 Nov 1997 23:51:22 -0800, Frank Cohen
<fcohen@watchmysite.com> wrote:

>I'm writing a simple Java application that sends email messages. Is
>there a Java or JBCL component call that will let me determine if there
>is TCP/IP connectivity to the Internet? My app crashes my system when I
>try opening a socket when I forget to dial-up to my ISP.

No Java component that I know of can do that.  Since sockets are built
into the VM, they come kinda natural.  You may try connecting to the
user's SMTP host, and should that fail, throw up an error message of
sorts indicating TCP/IP isn't connected, or the host is down, or
something like that.

Andrew
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