Subj : Modem Dialer
To   : Bennie Hutto
From : Steve Quarrella
Date : Sat Jul 15 2000 06:37 pm

 bh>>  Personally I use the Windows Task Manager,
 SQ>> There's not one for NT, is there?

Dale Ross woke me up on this one, although I try to forget the AT command when 
I can.  Medieval Latin is more fun. :-)  I -think- the Resource Kit has a 
graphical shell for it, which'll make life easier for me, should I need to go 
here.

 SQ>> I'm mulling about with a couple of
 SQ>> utilities that could just pause for 15 minutes before I send Argus its
 SQ>> EXIT.NOW exit semaphore, and then hang up.  Hell, I think the newer
 SQ>> XRobot may even allow this.

Here's what I do:

@echo off
rem Delete Argus's semaphore file
if exist f:\argus\exit.now del f:\argus\exit.now
rem Open Argus in another window so it'll do its thing
rem while Irex is doing its thing.
START /Df:\argus /I /NORMAL /MIN f:\argus\argus
f:
cd\fe
rem Pack up all my netmail into the outgoing echomail
fastecho pack
f:
cd\irex
rem Let Irex do its thing, and don't touch the phone.
rexw -send -fetch -autohangup
rem Call Xrobot and let Argus hang on for another 5 minutes
xrw32 wait /p300 /nl
rem Copy a small file over as the Argus exit semaphore
copy f:\argus\badwazoo.lst f:\argus\exit.now
rem Token call of Irex to grab mail and then hang up the phone
rexw -fetch mail +autohangup
rem Who cares about Argus at this point, as it's coming down within
rem a minute anyways.

Probably room for improvement, but this is a start.

 BH>  Not certain about XROBOT except for it's use with FrontDoor.

Great utility, and I'm bugging Joho for a few more features. :-)

 SQ>> Too bad Argus can't use DUN like Irex does.
 BH>  Yup....

I need to go over and suggest that, although I'd be surprised if Max implements 
it.

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