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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.

BFN !
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