gomez@ENUXHA.EAS.ASU.EDU (Jose L. Gomez-Rubio) (04/28/91)
Anyone know of a TSR/background program that answers the modem and says the BBS is down? I've run several stand-alone programs but they use up the entire machine. Thanks for the info!
gtephx (Wild Rider) (05/01/91)
In article <9104272341.AA16782@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> gomez@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Jose L. Gomez-Rubio) writes: > >Anyone know of a TSR/background program that answers the modem and says the >BBS is down? > >I've run several stand-alone programs but they use up the entire machine. > >Thanks for the info! why not just run the command in the background? you know, from the c shell, something like: tutorial % bbs_down >& bbs.msgs & [1] 437 tutorial % jobs [1] + Running bbs_down >& bbs.msgs tutorial % oh, you mean you're running ms-dog, not unix? sorry, i didn't know whether comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc was dedicated to just ms-dog, or all the os's the pc is capable of running. you really should try unix; you'll probably like it. cheers && happy hacking, wr (wild rider) -- Wallace Roberts, AG (formerly GTE) Communication Systems, Phoenix, AZ UUCP: ...!{ncar!noao!asuvax | uunet!zardoz!hrc | att}!gtephx!robertsw Internet: gtephx!robertsw@asuvax.eas.asu.edu Bike: '82 GS1100L Suz voice: (602)581-4555 fax: (602)582-7624 Cage: '89 Mustang GT -- Wallace Roberts, AG (formerly GTE) Communication Systems, Phoenix, AZ UUCP: ...!{ncar!noao!asuvax | uunet!zardoz!hrc | att}!gtephx!robertsw Internet: gtephx!robertsw@asuvax.eas.asu.edu Bike: '82 GS1100L Suz voice: (602)581-4555 fax: (602)582-7624 Cage: '89 Mustang GT