WHD - Slave Upgrade notification

[crazyc]

In the Startup and cleanup files, don't uncomment the lines that say "Stop the IP-Stack..." etc. that just is to tell you what the next line does so its only the actual commands that should be uncommented.

[crazyc]

Which bits are not working? you can test each stage, so for example, comment out the Cleanup line from the WHDLOAD prefs. Start Miami, then run a whdload game you know needs an update, and it should tell you that (so you know the stack works). Start the game then quit out and then do it again. If the Cleanup file was not run then MIAMI should now be stopped (as it wasnt restarted)and hence whdload will not do the update check.
Once you know that works, you can re-enable the cleanup and do the same test, which will prove if the cleanup file is restarting MIAMI successfully as then it should do the update check each time.

Your open url looks OK as far as I can see just make sure you click use and save etc- I assume that is the correct path to AWEB on your HD - I picked it using the selector rather than typing it in. Maybe add the "%u" - not sure it makes a difference - I didnt think I used it with Ibrowse but it didnt break it when I added it.

[rabidgerry]

Fixed the description lines so it's just the A rex commands in startup and cleanup.

Which bits aren't working? All bits aren't working, I get dos errors for each step and then I have to hit start and the game starts to run.

Added "%u" back into the Aweb bit, and yes I didn't type the path I searched manually.

I will have another look at this in more detail and see what happens.

[crazyc]

did you comment out the other stuff at the start of the whdload startup script? Mine literally only uses the lines for the network start and close.

[rabidgerry]

I did comment that stuff out as you said. Looking at this with a little more logic behind it I noticed that the Cleanup and Startup are point to C:Rx. There is nothing called RX in my C drive. I have something called Rexxc folder in my DH0: though and I decided to modify the script to point to that directory instead as inside it there is something called RX but this still didn't work.

I did an search online and it might be possible that I don't have this Arexx installed if that Rexxc folder isn't the same thing.

[daxb]

Usually, RX is in the search path and you should launch it without absolute path, only relative path. I.e. just "RX". Btw. with RX you start ARexx scripts that are interpreted by RexxMast.

You should see the entries in startup and cleanup as examples that might luckily work or not. Hence I would try to disable the TCP/IP stack (or USB stack) in a Shell to see if and how it works. If you have working solution put it in the startup file. Same for cleanup if you want to start the stack after quieting WHDLoad.

[rabidgerry]

Originally Posted by daxb

Usually, RX is in the search path and you should launch it without absolute path, only relative path. I.e. just "RX". Btw. with RX you start ARexx scripts that are interpreted by RexxMast.

You should see the entries in startup and cleanup as examples that might luckily work or not. Hence I would try to disable the TCP/IP stack (or USB stack) in a Shell to see if and how it works. If you have working solution put it in the startup file. Same for cleanup if you want to start the stack after quieting WHDLoad.

Ok I see what you mean

I found this on another forum and post about something similar and the guy had this

SYS:RexxC/RX "IF SHOW(PORTS,MIAMI.1) = 1 THEN ADDRESS MIAMI.1 OFFLINE"

[rabidgerry]

I think i need to install this first http://aminet.net/package/util/rexx/MiamiOnOff

[daxb]

You do not need this but you can check what it does and how it works of course. The one liner you posted should already work. But just try it. Go online with Miami and in a shell window type the one liner. If Miami goes offline it works. If Miami is running but not online the script should do nothing. My script is similar to the on liner + ISONLINE 'ppp0' to check if online and when true OFFLINE.