WingFlyer Help - Advanced Options

About the WFDialer Program - Registered Users Only

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WFdialer is a dial-up utility useful for Win95 and NT users who are using the Dial-up Networking feature of Windows. Its features include :

The ability to schedule a date and time for WFDialer to automatically dial up and connect to your ISP, run WingFlyer from the command line, and when WingFlyer is finished downloading, disconnect itself from the ISP.
It does this in two ways. You can configure WFDialer with a specific time and the program you want it to start up when it connects to your ISP. WingFlyer has added functionality that will allow it to quit after downloading the webpages and then cause WFDialer to shutdown too.

Here's how to do it.

First, configure WingFlyer

Start up WingFlyer and go to the Options Screen/Event Conf screen. Make sure the options labeled Have WingFlyer quit after finished downloading and Stop WfDialer after downloading are both checked.
Make any other changes and click on the Save button to make changes permanent.(See Command Line and Batch Downloads for details on setting up an auto-download).

Then configure WFDialer

Start up WFdialer without any command line parameters.
Pick your dialup profile from System List.
Fill in your Username and password
Fill in the complete path to the wingflyer executable with the parameters you want to run, as determine from above (see Command Line and Batch Downloads for explanation) into the Connect Command box. Note : this command line can be for any program, not just wingflyer.
If you want to set a date and time, click on the Config AutoRuns button and fill in the appropriate information. If you want WFDialer to start connecting to your ISP as soon as it starts, then leave the date and time boxes empty.
When done, click on the Save button to save your configuration

After this, you can start WFDialer with the command line option : -auto. WFDialer will then read in your settings and start connecting to your ISP(at the time specified in WFDialer).

WFDialer Command Line Options

WFDialer only recognizes 2 command line options : -auto and -closeall.

-auto	Upon startup, WFDialer will read in the saved configurations and check the Run Date and Time set. If the Current date and time is the same or later than the Run Date and Time or if the Run Date and Time fields are blank, then WFDialer starts connecting right away. Otherwise, it waits till the set time to start connecting.
-closeall	WFDialer will check to see if another instance of WFDialer is already running. If it is, it will cause that application to quit, closing any dial-up connections running at that time. WFDialer will then quit itself.