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How to detect if a network is loaded?

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From: Steve Frampton
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 17:17

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Hi everyone:

A short time ago I saw several postings here describing methods to detect
if 'SHARE' was loaded.  Fantastic!

However, I also have the need to detect if a LAN network is loaded...it
has to detect whether NETBIOS, or LANTastic, or (etc...) is installed.

Basically, what I want to do is:  

  if ((network_installed()) && (!share_loaded()))
    chastise_user("You IDIOT!  SHARE must be installed!\n");

Does anyone have any reliable methods to do this?  Please respond via
e-mail to preserve bandwidth, I shall be more than happy to follow-up
here with a summary.

Thanks in advance!

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From: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton)
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Subject: How to detect if a *network* is loaded?
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Date: 2 Nov 92 17:17:46 GMT
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