Subj : shared COMM port To : Mark Lewis From : Elwyn Goldsbury Date : Mon Jan 22 2001 11:12 am >as i use two seperate modems and frontdoor on my system, i can't say about >externally shutting down or suspending bink but i seem to recall in my days of >messing around with it that it could run external events... that's where i'd >go... external event that fires up your dialout and gathers what it needs, and >then when it shuts down, returns to binkley... thanks Mark - thats the way I may need to go - currently I am using two modems - but I would rather have a Cron triggured event that shuts down binkley does the internet connection them fires up binkley again - just looking for anyone who may hav put some code together to do it !! thankd again Elwyn Goldsbury --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: GenBOARD/2 (Wellington, New Zealand) 64-4-479-1960 (3:771/160) .