Hello Thomas:

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:17:28 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote:

> from Sam Heywood:

>> I have found that some wattcp applications will parse the value of
>> DOS environment variables, if they appear in a wattcp.cfg file.
>> Thus if you put:

>>      my_ip=%myip%

>> in a wattcp.cfg file - where %myip% is the variable set to your current
>> dynamic IP address when you run a file like ip-up.bat or similar file,
>> created by epppd,  some applications will be able to interpret
>> %myip% directly. For those writing different wattcp.cfg file for
>> different applications, this saves you the trouble of writing a
>> batch file that inserts the literal dynamic IP address into wattcp.cfg

The above quote is from a message posted by Howard Schwartz, not me.

BTW, this does work for my applications.  I have never tried UKA_PPP,
or COMTCP, or TCPPORT.

> I tried this with UKA_PPP, and it didn't work at all.  But with UKA_PPP 1.7x2,
> running the X_* programs for SMTP, POP3 and NNTP, I don't change the my_ip 
line
> at all, and it works either with COMTCP under OS/2 Warp 4 or TCPPORT when
> connecting with DOS.

Sam Heywood

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