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BAT file to detect active dial-up

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by jkopetko

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Hi,

Cutting longer story short, using NT4.0 and wishing to detect whether there is an active dial-up connection to the Internet. If so run command line to download email. Command line to download email OK. Detecting active dialup not.

TIA,

john K.

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

Cutting a long story short.

ping microsoft.com > c:\temp\temp_ping.txt

Open temp_ping.txt and look at results...

Cheers,
Tim.

by jkopetko

Excuse me being a mug. 'ping' seems the smarts, but how do I open, read and check ping was successful within a bat file?

John

by timthetoolman

Unfortunately the answer to that is... not easily. At least not in DOS.

DOS (.bat files) doesn't provide a lot in the way of file access. Nothing actually.

So you may need to write something in some other language to do it. I could have a lookin PERL (Which I know quite well) if you're still interested?

Cheers,
Tim.

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