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From: [e-mail] (Mike Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Dectecting winsock - How?
Date: 10 Nov 1995 14:54:11 -0500
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes:
|> Hi out there in the info-pool
|>
|> Just a quickie here:
|>   I'm using kermit under windows and would like to detect
|> whether Trumpet winsock is loaded, if it is, display some
|> error message then exit Kermit.  If it is not then Kermit
|> can continues and makes its connection to the remote host.
|> Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
|>
|> Thanks in advance.     - Tony -
|>

I don't believe there is any way to detect that Winsock is running.
However, if you *know* you are on an ethernet connection you can test
for failure after your script executes "connect" and then issue a warning
message asking if Winsock is implicated.  That, at least, was how I
did it here.  Below are a couple macros defined in our local customizations.
\m(qcon) is a local macro indicating the type of connection: ethernet, dial-in,
or pacx.  You'd have to replace that test with something of your own.
The login script does a set port tcp <whatever> and then

   connect
   if failure wswarn

; Emsg reports an error message with a beep and then sleeps 10 seconds
; to let Windows users read the message before exiting.
def emsg -
   echo {\7\%1}, -
   if > argc 1 echo {}, -
   echo {...MS-Kermit will exit in 10 seconds or sooner if you press any key...}, -
   sleep 10, -
   exit
; wswarn warns that Kermit cannot be used on an ethernet connection if
; Winsock is running.  On other connections wswarn is a no-op.
def wswarn -
   if not eq \m(qcon) ethernet end, -
   echo {}, -
   echo {Warning: MS-Kermit could not establish a network connection.  If you are in}, -
   emsg {Windows, make sure that Trumpet Winsock is *closed*, not just minimized.}, -
   end 1
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