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Re: [ECS] weather reports made easy (hopefully)... Tom Hutchins Wed, 23 Feb 2000 21:25:12 -0500

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OK here's a good one.
I've set up Scott's script by following his suggestion to modify lmemail.bat
by replacing the line calling postie w/ a line 'start/w weather.bat 45245'
and have named this file getweath.bat. Now it works great when I run it from
windows, however, I've set up a text item called 'getweather' and text is
'c:\progra~1\ecs\getweath.bat'.
When I set this item to execute I get the error message "Cannot find the
file 'C:\Program Files\ECS\Command1.com'".
I don't get this message when I double click on the file getweath.bat from
program mgr.

Any ideas?

Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Reston" <ih8gates@concentric.net>
To: <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: [ECS] weather reports made easy (hopefully)...


> On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 08:31:10 -0500, Thomas Hutchins-TA wrote:
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> >Yes I mean I'm still connected to the internet. I'm not home to test the
START
> >/W RASDIAL /DISCONNECT, however, I do use the TVL_dl event to get
TV-listings
> >and it disconnects from the internet when done and I believe that uses
the START
> >/W RASDIAL /DISCONNECT doesn't it?
>
> if that's not working, i'm not sure what the problem is... do you see the
RASDIAL line show up in the window after my script runs? you might need to
put a
> "START /W" before weather.bat... let it run in it's own session, but have
your 'getweather.bat' wait for it to finish...
>
> >My ISP disconnects me after 20 minutes of inactivity, but 5 minutes would
be
> >better. How did you go about that?
>
> hmm.. those settings are hidden all over the place. i think you might find
it by going into "internet properties" (in your control panel) and go to the
connection
> tab. choose your dial-up connection in the list, then press the "settings"
button... it's in the same place that you can set how many redial attempts
you want.
>
>
>
> scott reston
> ih8gates@concentric.net
> http://www.indelible-blue.com/meetib/scott/
>
>
>
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