[arachne] Re: Ray's Alt-D

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On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:53:42 +100, Bastiaan Edelman wrote:

Hi Bastiaan,

> 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.

Sure, I have no reason to argue, since I've never tried any of that
hardware. Whatever works for you is fine with me.

> 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.

So this is no good for you? If so, I guess I should remove that
message and just let it go. But there could be a problem with that
since it could cause a double load of lsppp.exe with dialup.
This might need a bit of thinking.

> 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

Those look fine, although if you want you can just build 'discon.bat'
directly into hangup.bat.

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

It just depends on the timestamp of ppp.log.

>> 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!!

No? I think in this case it's not just installed, but WATTCP can actualy
find it within Arachne, so it should be ok.


Regards,


Ray Andrews
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