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In article <ant2518480b04X#s@arcstone.demon.co.uk>, Robin Clive-Matthews
<URL:mailto:robin@arcstone.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> In article <ant2322430b0SZmY@pigott.demon.co.uk>, Malcolm Pigott
> <URL:mailto:malcolm@pigott.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 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)?
> The only thing I can think of is (if you're using a task alarm from !Alarm) to
> run Freenews one minute after you run ANT.
> Failing that, you could get !Scheduler or whatever it's called from the Navaho
> web site (it's free). This lets you specify an exact time (accuracy is seconds,
> not minutes). Therefore you could run ANT, and then give it 20 secs or so
> before starting Freenews. This would also mean that you could leave ANT's
> inactivity timeout set at one minute to auto-disconnect you.
> I think it would be quite nice if the ANT suite would automatically disconnect
> you after either a certain period of time had elapsed, or after your news/email
> had finished downloading. As far as I know it doesn't do this ATM.
> 

It does, otherwise my phone bill would be even higher than it is now :-(. I
was actually doing what you suggested (starting FreeNews one minute after the
ANTSuite) but the problem I had was if I didn't get a connection first time.
However, another poster has pointed out the the ANT Suite has a feature to
run any script or application upon network connection, so that's sorted.

TTFN

Malcolm

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