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Article #153Re: Running FreeNews and the ANT Suite together
From: FreeNews development (John Smith...
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 00:00
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In message <ant2322430b0SZmY@pigott.demon.co.uk> Malcolm Pigott wrote: > I would like to start FreeNews automatically, at a certain time using the > stack that the ANT Suite II uses. I can kick off a connection on the ANT > Suite OK and can also start FreeNews, but what I was wondering is if there is > a way to stop FreeNews trying to connect to the news until the stack has > connected to the 'net (I'm using Dial Up)? Easy. ANT has such a facility already built in! Run !InetConfg, and choose "Other options". You can then choose to run a script (or just a program) on "Modem Connection". It couldn't really be simpler, could it? 3 -- John. .(-''''-). ___________________________________________________ // \\ John Smith john@roundel.demon.co.uk Principal Analyst/Programmer \\ // Author, FreeNews '(-....-)' .. Want to know the heart and mind of America? Learn baseball.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 114044,2cda946920abe460 X-Google-Attributes: gid114044,public X-Google-Thread: 11173c,2cda946920abe460 X-Google-Attributes: gid11173c,public From: freenews@roundel.demon.co.uk (FreeNews development (John Smith)) Subject: Re: Running FreeNews and the ANT Suite together Date: 1997/05/26 Message-ID: <19970526.180744.36@roundel.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 244038709 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: roundel.demon.co.uk [158.152.119.249] References: <ant2322430b0SZmY@pigott.demon.co.uk> X-Posting-Agent: RISC OS Newsbase 0.58 X-NNTP-Poster: FreeNews 1.14 Organization: home Reply-To: freenews@roundel.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.networking,demon.ip.support.archimedes