St: > You want to exit and restart TB or reboot the PC. This is pretty > easy to do while in front of the PC - but if TB is downloading > mail unattended it is a totally different story!
Alexander S. Kunz: > According to the help file the command line helps: > > "The /EXIT command is used to force The Bat! to exit as soon as > all mail transfer operations are complete" > > I haven't tried it but from reading this description I would > assume that it will not show a message window this way. Would you be willing to assume I actually have "tried it" and thus what I am writing is true? /EXIT is a command TB must read from a file called thebat.IPC The help file says this about thebat.IPC: "For those who are familiar with programming, here's a handy hint: The Bat! checks a file called TheBat.IPC which is located in the same directory in which The Bat! executable (TheBat.exe) file is located. Within this text file, each line represents one command that can be executed by the program, so you can write commands to this file directly and control The Bat! on your PC even over a local network. Note that TheBat.IPC is deleted as soon as all commands from it have been executed, so if this file does not exist, you will have to create it to make use of it." BUT - there is another "Bonus" Annoyance here: Every now and then TB apparently fails to read this file, and from then on it simply ignores further checking thebat.IPC. Unless you restart TB, it won't check thebat.IPC. Now, exactly how do you send TB that /EXIT command when TB fails to read the file that contains the request!?! GREAT! The help file states: "Note that you can run only one copy of The Bat! on your PC at one time, but if you try to start another copy of The Bat!, all Command Line parameters will be seamlessly passed to the running copy of the program and executed." Repeat: How do you send TB that /EXIT command (or whatever IPC command) when TB fails to read the file that contains the request? Apparently, if TB failes to read the IPC-file just _once_, some error code instructs TB to give a dudu about trying to read the file later on! And "exactly how do you send TB that IPC command when TB fails to read the file that contains the request"!?! -- St ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.12.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
