RAS Spawning

VTS may be used to automatically dial RAS connections based upon some condition generated within your application. RAS spawning may be useful for situations where:

•      The client needs to contact a server periodically using a phone line, or

•      The server needs to inform a specific client of a problem or event.

In order to facilitate this behavior, you must ensure the steps below are taken:

1.  Enable RAS for incoming calls on the PC to be called (consult your Windows operating system help files for instructions on enabling RAS).

2.  Create a RAS phonebook entry for the PC to be called (consult your Windows operating system help files for instructions on creating a RAS phonebook entry).

3.  Use the Spawn() function in VTS to make the call as follows:

Spawn("Rasphone –d Entry")

Where "Entry" is the name of the RAS entry.

To hang up the connection, use:

Spawn("Rasphone –h Entry")