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dos launching a dial up connection
Name: Adam Date: June 12, 2002 at 08:02:17 Pacific
Comment:
I was wondering if there is a way for DOS to launch a dial up connection you may have saved in your "dial up networking" for script writing purposes?
Name: JackG Date: June 12, 2002 at 22:53:54 Pacific
Reply:
Gee, I never though of that one either. So as I am running Windows ME and have a Dial-Up Networking icon for my ISP setting on my Desktop, I just added the following line to my little batch file I just created:
START C:\Windows\Desktop\ISP.lnk
and volia, with a simple batch file I can start my ISP dialer connecting and bring up two Internet Explorer windows trying to connect to two different URL's.You learn something every day, but today I learned two new things.
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