Connection error

Andreas Raab Andreas.Raab at gmx.de
Sat Mar 9 22:06:52 UTC 2002


> >No version of Squeak I've used (I joined the party at 2.7) has 
> >activated Windows Dial-On-Demand.  I'll have to dig out my old 
> >modemized Mac and see what I've been missing.  (-:
> 
> When you initialize the network and your mac is setup for dialup 
> internet access that will kick off the dialup connectivity. Thus we 
> don't automatically initialize the network to prevent this from 
> happening. Which always leads to problems when people attempt to open 
> a socket on the mac before initializing the network (that doesn't 
> work and they don't know why..).

Exactly the same strategy applies to Windows. It would be nice if we
could pass errors back ... or perhaps just initialize the network on
demand?

Cheers,
  - Andreas





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