ping an IP?

Try opening thet Start menu, then select Run, then type "cmd" in the prompt. That gets you to their shell, where you can say ping

or whatever.

i

Or start-menu->accessories->command prompt Unless some officious, busybody IT twat has removed it

Mark Rand (I'm an IT twat, but I don't always agree with stupidity :-| RTFM

Got a DOS spray ?

Now that was nice.

I used to spray a long list of domains in order to verify connections and availability to be use in simulations. e.g. did someone turn off their computer on the way home... Naturally a shell program did it for me. Just wish I had cron files and the other unix stuff but no not in windows must be mouse only driven...

Martin

Martin H. Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net TSRA, Life; NRA LOH & Endowment Member, Golden Eagle, Patriot"s Medal. NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member.

Mark Rand wrote:

I use cron under windows every day (at work). I am talking about real cron, not their brain dead Scheduled Tasks. Download cygwin and install cron as a service.

At home I want to have nothing to do with windows.

i

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:14:28 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Lew Hartswick quickly quoth:

The PING program is still included, as is TRACERT. Start/Run/command will get you the DOS window.

"ping aol.com" is the command (without the quotes), no WWW as someone else stated.

According to Martin H. Eastburn :

You can pick up a lot of the unix utilities (and shells) with Cygwin. I'm not sure whether they include a cron workalike or not, but it is worth checking.

Yep -- it has cron as part of it. I've just found it on their page.

And -- most of the stuff is open source.

Enjoy, DoN.

Windows has a command line task scheduler called "AT". Type "AT -?" for help.

R, Tom Q.

Looks like I'm a little behind the times - "schtasks" is the new CLI scheduler.

R, Tom Q.

Cygwin definitely has a working cron service. I pull down logs from a club website every day via cron and a script.

Wes S

You don't have to resort to cygwin for a lot of the utilities. Many have been compiled to run native at a windows prompt. I've been using quite a few of them for years now. See:

or

I'm not familiar with "cron" though, so I can't say for sure that one is available...

Depends on whether you want to ping

or aol.com. Two different IPs. What's spelled wrong is 'tracert'. The correct spelling is 'traceroute'. ;-)

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:41:21 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, Steve Ackman quickly quoth:

I had tried a couple of those before and they never worked. I just tried my own site and it does work. I sit corrected (too lazy to stand.)

"tracert" has worked for me in Win95/98, Win2k, and just now in XP. "traceroute" does -not- work in Windows XP. _Try it_, Steve.

According to Larry Jaques :

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Note his smiley?

"traceroute" is the spelling of the original program where it came into being -- on unix. The truncated spelling is to make it fit on the older MS-DOS filesystems with the 8.3 limitation.

And *I* at least *can't* try it in Windows XP -- because I won't use an OS which insists on calling hope for permission (and re-licensing) every time I make changes to the hardware hung on the system. Even more so with the new "Vista".

Besides -- those don't know how to run on Sun SPARC (or even my older Suns with Motorola 68000 series processors. :-)

Enjoy, DoN.

On 24 Dec 2006 04:53:04 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, snipped-for-privacy@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) quickly quoth:

Y'know, I thought about that and checked my _Unix in a Nutshell_ book before posting, but "traceroute" wasn't in there.

And on my '07 NY Resolution list is: Build and use a Linux box.

Yeah, XP maybe my last stop mit Vinders. It still doesn't do I/O worth a shit. All of the BSODs I've seen in the past several years have been caused by simple I/O hosings by Windows.

AFAIK, they don't work on Amigas, either.

-- Friends Don't Let Friends Eat Turkey and Drive --

Strongly recommend picking up an old 800mhz or faster machine, putting in at least 512meg memory, an external modem, a 5-9gig hard drive then installing Simply Mepis.

So far..after the 15 -20 distros Ive tried..Im back to Mepis again. Knoppix 4.0 is a good live distro, but HD installation is a bit problematic.

Ill stick with Mepis for a while.

Gunner

Political Correctness

A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

According to Larry Jaques :

[ ... ]

It is a recent addition to the BIND package. Older systems need to download the source and compile it, but newer ones come with it.

Good one!

:-)

Or much of anything else. They do make some of the programs (e.g. IE and OE) available for Macs -- and tried making them available for Suns -- but nobody using Suns was bothering to download them (for some funny reason), so they gave up on it. It was a real pain when I was trying to download an upgrade to IE for my Windows box (which is not allowed to talk to the outside world) because the income tax software insisted on it -- and Microsoft's site either expected me to connect from the system which needed upgrading (not going to happen) or insisted on feeding me a version of IE for SunOs instead. :-) I finally got one from one of the many CD-ROMs offering internet connectivity, and just yanked it out of that (using Solaris) and put it onto a stand-alone file to install into the Windows in question (NT 4.0 that one was.)

Enjoy, DoN.

According to Gunner :

Good -- you're in this thread. I need an e-mail address for you which will be sure to reach you (I've had problems in the past -- and my e-mail address is good. Hopefully I'm not blocking your mail server. :-)

I need this to send you the information about the unix based CAD program which is being developed. I can give you the url for downloading the current version (0.5 -- which I am using), and he thinks that 0.6 won't be ready until sometime early next year, instead of making it between Christmas and New Years.

You'll have to compile it, but it should be easy. Just type "./configure", then "make", and finally "make install". Configure will ask you to ok an install location (or provide your own preference) and then will modify the Makefile and the code to use that for the files needed.

And he would appreciate hearing about any problems you encounter, so he can fix them.

Enjoy, DoN.

Cool!

they are as follows...

gunner at lightspeed dot net gunnerasch at hotmail dot com gunnerasch at gmail dot com gunnerasch at myway dot com gunnerasch4570 at yahoo dot com

lightspeed gets checked at least once a day, often more

hotmail..every couple days on average

gmail...a couple times a month when I remember, Usually used for very large email attachments. 5 meg is lightspeeds limit. myway..spam trap yahoo..shrug.. maybe once a week. Mostly used for Groups emails

This compling thingy..Ill have to learn how to do that. Ive been stumped the last couple days with exactly that problem

Gunner

Political Correctness

A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

[ ... ]

[ ... ]

O.K. I've tried the first two -- and it looks as though you should get both. If you don't get either -- post here and e-mail me.

[ ... ]

I've got some hints which should work for this one -- and he has planned for normal linux systems (which is where he is developing, after all.) I think that you will have less problem with this than with many programs which require you to chase down and compile a bunch of special libraries first. :-)

Merry Christmas, DoN.