═══ 1. Dial IP Info ═══ This program was originally written to make a connection to the internet thru ppp.exe, check for email, let me know if I had any, and disconnect. It was/is supposed to do this in the BACKGROUND/UNSEEN at timed intervals throughout the day so that I could know fairly soon when I got email, without having an expensive direct internet connection. It basically does this, and more. It ended up turning into a full fledged dialer. It has something old, something new, something borrowed, something OS/2. When I first started I went looking for what was out there to use to get done what I needed. I ended up using 3 good packages out there: rxpop.zip freeware from By Christoph Lechleitner and nyts204.zip freeware The New York Telephone Scheduler Version 2.04 By Stu Mark and rxu1a.zip freeware from By Dave Boll rxpop has routines excellently showing how to use REXX commands to check for your email! nyts is a nice handy little scheduler. You might talk to him about trying to do away with the first cmd.exe window that pops up in the background and then goes away. It would be nice to not have it show up at all! rxu was formerly called ybda or something and has a lot of rexx routines that call C functions which really make rexx more functional. If you have ybda I assume you will want to delete your ydbautil.dll or whatever it is and just use the newer rxu.dll. I am including them because I like them and think you will too. The rest is all mine. I have turned it into a GUI program and here it is. It is shareware, NOT FREE, but hopefully has a reasonable price. I am asking a small price for my work, not for the others. Price: $5 to $20 U.S. dollars. Pay what you think it is worth or what you can pay. Pay in the middle and feel o.k. If you think it will save you a lot of time writing your own and does a good job for you pay more, and if you can't afford it right now, pay less. If you rip me off you hopefully aren't a christian and you will surely hasten people not to program for OS/2 since they can't make any money at it, and it will be just another log in the fire come judgement day. rxpop.zip includes: chkpop.cmd, getpop.cmd, pollpop.cmd, readme.rxp nyts204.zip includes: nytsii.doc, nytsii.exe, nytsii.stu, pmpop.exe Use this or use your own. rxu1a.zip includes: file_id.diz, procs.cmd, rxsrs.exe, rxu.dll, rxu.dsc, rxu.inf my stuff includes: dialip.exe, killbn.cmd, killhex.cmd, showini.cmd, notify.cmd, vputil.dll ═══ 2. Creating an ID ═══ CREATING AN ID ===============x'ime' it will rebuild the connection string from the current settings at that time before dialing. Notes: The 'Connection Commands' are used to build the connection string. Whatever variables you denote in the connection commands will be replaced when you build your connection string. your login_name were 'stan' then would get replaced with 'stan'. The 'Extra Variables' tab is where you can define any extra variables you need, var1...var10, which you can specify in your connection string. The variables will be replaced (even recursively) by their values when you do 'Build Connection String'. These are the built in variables: is the only var. that will not be replaced (until it dials). ═══ 3. Your Section 1 title ═══ First Paragraph Second Paragraph ═══ 4. Your Section 1 title ═══ First Paragraph Second Paragraph ═══ 5. Your Section 1 title ═══ First Paragraph Second Paragraph ═══ 6. History ═══ 1.0 Very first release 1.1 Major Enhancements! New code to allow user to program their own ppp connection string! Added variables for use in connection string. Fixed dumb bug of not allowing typing into ID field. Also added predefined templates for building connect strings to attach to compuserve (ppp) and Spry. Added new command line args -noshow and -ex Stopped sharing password with IBM software. 1.2 Window list now tells what dialip is doing when it is not showing. Can autostart a program upon connection. Updated get mail to use and index and name new mail: mail_path\emINDEX.msg 1.3 Major Enhancements! 1996/12 Added: Higher priority to connection so it will work better (I was starting to not connect at night presumably when they were busier), Do Not Hang Up If check for and find Mail (this is so you can normally use the -hu flag so it will normally hangup, unless it finds mail, then it will stay connected), Manual mode connection, Inactivity Timeout, MRU size, Flow Control flag. Fixed: 1.2 might have hung up if you tried to start a 2nd one when another was already connected. Does not tie up program while dialing. You can tell it to hang up or exit if you change your mind. 1.32 Major Enhancements! 1997/01 Added: Modem choice with init strings.