[ale] MindSpring Mentor

Gregory Vence gvence at ix.netcom.com
Wed Mar 12 07:31:17 EST 1997


Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> 
> I had a better solution to this.  First, I have two modems, but with a little
> effort, you could do it with one.  I often wanted to telnet/ftp to my machine
> at home from work.  I would dial in via the first modem and then start my
> network over the second.  You could do basically the same thing, put together
> a small script that would update your cron file with a network start.  Dial
> into your machine call the script to start the network, say in 5 minutes.
> 
> Just a suggestion.
> 
Thanks, this would work well when I'm in town (most of time) and save
the resources.  To make sure this really worked, I'd have to disable
call waiting.  Currently, I can only do that for outbound dialing.






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