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[Shakespeare]

I wrote this program to invoke some systems commands to check my internet connection at work.

#include<iostream.h>  
#include<fstream.h>   // for file io
#include<windows.h>   // For system commands 

int main()
{
	// declare a variable for opening a file
    ofstream OpenFile;

	// issue a system command to invoke the SGET program
	system("SGET http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.zip") ; 

	// find and open the file ides.zip
	OpenFile.open("ides.zip", ios::nocreate);

	// if the file is not present
	if (!OpenFile)
	{
		// invoke the drop.HAW program
		cout << "Internet disabled. Attempting to reconnect." << endl ;
		system("drop.HAW") ;
		return 0 ;
			
	}
	// file is present
	else
	{
		// connection is good do nothing return success
		cout << "Internet connection detected." << endl ;
		return 0 ;
	}
	
	return 0 ;
} // main

This program works fine. The problem is that the program drop.HAW, which is a HyperACCESS program is left open. Since the program won't finish until the Hyper access window closes my program never finishes.

To counter this, i wrote another program that issues a close command to the window.

#include <windows.h> // library for windows specific calls
   
int main()
{
	// find window name and close it
	HWND hHyper = FindWindow(NULL, "drop.HAW - HyperACCESS");
		SendMessage(hHyper, WM_CLOSE, 0, 0);

	// find window name and close it
	HWND hDos = FindWindow(NULL, "Finished - Checknet");
		SendMessage(hDos, WM_CLOSE, 0, 0);

	// return success
	return 0 ;
}

This worked fine on my test computer which has windows 2000 installed. but when i run it on the intended computer which has windows 95 it doesn't close my open windows. It's all done with scheduling.

So, anyway, what i want to know is why this doesn't work on windows 95 and how can i fix this?

Another thing is that i really don't want to have to schedule two programs to accomplish one task, is there another way in which i can modify the first program to close the windows itself.

Cheers guys.

[orbitz]

This is a pretty hackish and unefficient means of discovering if the internet works. Try learning sockets.

google or beej's guide.

[Shakespeare]

I know its inefficient, thats not what i asked.

Great thoughts though. be proud.

[Entropic]

Here's a website with some code that does exactly what you are looking for (I hope). The code will terminate a process given the process name on win95/98/me/2k and xp according to the author. Check it out http://www.physiology.wisc.edu/ravi/software/killproc/