Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!rutgers!dorm.rutgers.edu!medici From: medici@dorm.rutgers.edu (Mark Medici) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: desqview question Message-ID: Date: 8 Nov 90 16:35:17 GMT References: <1990Nov7.211211.10870@mercury.cair.du.edu> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 22 tjreynol@zephyr.cair.du.edu (Tim) writes: >I would like to put a Network option in his DV menu; I put one in, and >it ran a batch file to log him on, then the last line was 'exit' >to return to the menu, so he can go to mail, or whatever; >well, it logs him in ok, but when the window closees, the net drivers go away >is there a way to close a window, and leave something resident in ram? I've been using DV and NetWare for 3+ years now. I don't know of anyway to do this. In fact, my experience has shown that loading NW inside DV often results in unreliable results. I recommend putting a question in the user's AUTOEXEC.BAT and/or DV.BAT asking if s/he wants to connect to the server. There are several PD utils (e.g., TASK.COM) that will return an errorlevel based on a Yes, No or timeout response. Subsequent lines in the batch program can test for this errorlevel and load/skip the network. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Medici/SysProg3 * Rutgers University/CCIS * medici@elbereth.rutgers.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------