[arachne] Re: Ray's Alt-D

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On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:58:56 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote:                       
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> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:42:02 -0600, "Destiny" <destiny2b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:

> Cal,

>>> Why would you press Alt+D anyway? I used to have a guard against
>>> Alt+D when you are already connected, but Eric was of the opinion
>>> that I should take it out. My view is that it should be there, since
>>> there can be no reason to dial when you are already connected.

There can be a reason... the packetdriver is used to get acces to the
router and from there I have to dial in to the WWW using telnet.

Using Alt+D says Arachne is already on line which is not true since the
telnet commands should be given first to the router/modem.

When I use connect.bat direct (installed it under Shift+F6) then all is
OK but when Alt+D activates the same connect.bat "Arachne is already
on line" and nothing happens... the timer resets though.

Alt+D => connect.bat
connect.bat:
telnet.exe @connect.scr (=telnet script to connect the modem)
echo online > ppp.log
exit

Alt+H => hangup.bat
hangup.bat:
rem connect\termin.com 0x60
call discon.bat
if exist ppp.log del ppp.log

discon.bat:
telnet.exe @discon.scr (=telnet script to disconnect)
if exist ppp.log del ppp.log
exit

Timer resets on connect and disconnect... perhaps she is counting as
Arachne thinks she is still on line?


>> You are assuming that everyone uses Arachne as you do.  When using Arachne

> Nope, I'm quite aware of the fact that things could be very different
> with constant connections.

>> in OS/2 one can jump to program window list, delete the session and restart
>> Arachne, press Alt-D and re-establish the connection.  The modem did not lose
>> the connection.  Arachne thinks it never disconnected.
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> However, my core always knows when it's connected, unlike std. core
> which, if you move to another copy or Arachne, thinks it's offline untill
> you press Alt+D -- even tho that Alt+D doesn't really do anything but
> create ppp.log. My core sniffs out the packet driver directly.

An installed packet driver does NOT mean Arachne is on line!!

>> Please leave Alt-D available anytime.

> Yeah, I'd need a consensus to change it.

Regards, Bastiaan


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> Regards,

> Ray Andrews
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