Re: [MacPerl] Shutdown and MacPerl

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 3.28 97/2/19, John W Baxter wrote:
>At 19:16 -0500 2/18/97, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
>
>>
>>Your easiest fix is not to try to drop your PPP connection during shutdown.
>>Do it before.
>
>Or, with modern software, just shut down.  MacOS 7.6, Open Transport, and
>OT/PPP conspire very nicely to drop the PPP connection cleanly on shutdown
>or restart.  I forget now whether 7.5.5, OT, and OT/PPP was the same...I
>think so.  The timing is right...the connection is dropped after
>applications have quit (and therefore if one of them fails to quit, the
>connection stays up).

Heck, since OT/PPP is scriptable, I would just append two subroutines to
your script -- &disconnect and &shutdown -- and call the script to shut
down instead of using shut down from the menu or something.

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