On 12/18/04 1:46 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is the recommended method of testing for an Internet connection? Well, this may not be "recommended", but I have this code in my Scripter's Scrapbook: function checkNetStatus -- hide shell activity from user set the hideConsoleWindows to true -- ping a host that should always -- visible to your computer get shell("ping 24.10.72.1 -n 1 -w 200") -- isolate the status info put lineoffset("% loss",it) into x set the itemDelimiter to "=" get word 1 of last item of line x of it -- tell somebody! if it <> 1 then return "UP" else return "DOWN" end if end checkNetStatus Don't know if this will help, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution