On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Alan B. Pearce wrote:

>>On DOS/W32 the easiest wrapper is a batch file
>>with a ERRORLEVEL conditional goto after the
>>test program to jump aruond the application to
>>be run if the test failed.
>>On NT you would use shell scripting I think.
>
>I do not think this will work as it sounds like the app is being started as
>a service, and not waiting for someone to login.

The item that you start as a service can be any program. Like the wrapper
for example.

>If it is being started as a service, I think there is a way to determine the
>order of starting, but have never gone digging into this. It may be
>necessary to have a time delay or retry built into the app as others
>suggest, as it sounds like you have a race condition occurring between the
>app and the drivers it relies on.
>
>Another solution may be to have the app start at a real low priority level,
>and retry on the dependencies, and then once the link is made push its own
>priority level up to something suitable - just a thought, again not
>something I have tried.

It is presumed that source access is not available so something external
needs to be fixed.

Peter

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