Re: Monitor for dialup connection before issuing FTP commands

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rick

It seems you get the device job - you could get its job log messages with
QMHLJOBL. I think there's some positioning available. Keep polling until
you get what you need.

Vern

At 07:40 AM 10/8/02 -0500, you wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I'm looking for recommendations on how to programatically wait for/monitor
> for/ensure that a PPP dialup connection has completed, and all the
> handshaking is done, so that I may start an ftp connection with the remote
> machine.
>
> in preliminary testing, it can take as long as 30-60 seconds for this to
> complete.  If I start the FTP client session too soon after I issue the
> STRTCPP2P command, the connection locks up and never completes.  only if I
> wait until the device job gets the dialup connection complete message, will
> the ftp make the connection.
>
> any ideas?
>
> thanks,
>
> rick