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On or about 21-Mar-96 10:18:00 Jmonson typed the following words about "Re: Is
PPP recoverable after reset???".  My reply is thus...

 Hi Jmonson,


>>       If I've connected with PPP to my Internet provider and the Amiga
>>crashed and reset itself (the modem no hang up), may I recover the
>>connection without hang up and dial again ?     How I do ???

 J> I don't know about PPP, but my Slip connection will quite happily survive
 J> me reseting my 1200. Often I have had the 1200 crash, reset, reload, all
 J> the while the modem remain connected, all I need to do is "startnet" and I
 J> am away online again.  :)

 J> Having said that though, I have yet to find a script which will "stopnet,
 J> _and_ hang up the modem" which works... I have found many scripts which
 J> claim to hang up the modem on  exit, but which do not.  I'd rather have
 J> something to hang up the modem than something that keeps the modem online
 J> forever.
 J> (the first option is cheaper)

 J> Jason

Hmmmmm... Get rexxserdev.library from Aminet. Then you can use arexx to send a
hangup command to the modem. Just write a stopnet script in arexx and you are
all set. I used an arexx script for a ling time to dial my ISP. Then I got
ppp.device with a built in dialer and a hangup command.


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