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From: Richard Sargeant <sargeant@arcade.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Scripts for SLIPdial are so complicated?
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 02:37:51 +0100
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On Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:09:09 +0100 (BST) Nick Kaijaks wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Carol Carpenter wrote:
>
> > 1. Should we stay with SlipDial or go for FreeDial ?
>
> Personally, I'd prefer FreeDial with one reservation. SlipDial is very
> flexible but can be awkward to set up if there isn't a script supplied.
SLIPdial is provided with good documentation, so given the patience
to have a read whilst following through one of the scripts provided
a new script does not take too much time to create. I have changed
the script myself quite easily to when switching between ISPs and all
that I really changed was the prompts/responses that were expected.
With the modular approach of !NetConfig, it selects an appropriate
script automagically as long as it is (already) aware of the ISP,
which is just the same criteria as for ANT Internet Suite users.
> I'm not a technical novice, but I confess
> that I haven't got it working properly yet!
Provide the information (prompts and responses, except p/word)
and one of us will create a (stand alone) script for SLIPdial.
That is how I prefer to run SLIPdial - I have a separate
program which provides the ten buttons to run programs that
I wrote (which Carol knows about, but I have not shown her).
One thing about !Acornet is you have to be careful not to run
the first time configuration program once it's all setup okay.
--
Richard S. email: sargeant@arcade.demon.co.uk