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From: minshall@kinetics.com (Greg Minshall)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Need a Mac PING program
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Date: 28 Nov 89 22:50:15 GMT
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In article <1561@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se> d5alfre@dtek.chalmers.se (Bengt Alfredsson) writes:
>I plan to connect a Macintosh to a UNIX host over  
>a TCP/IP network with use of Telet 2.3
>and I will use a Apple EtherTalk Card.
>
>But I'm in desperate need of a Mac program that can PING
>to my UNIX host, so I can see that the network is working.

The good news is that we have such a program (ping for the Mac).  It was
just hacked up from the "standard" Unix ping.

The bad news are:  1)  it is an MPW tool; 2)  it requires our TCP/IP
drivers (TCPort) to run; 3)  it is part of our developer's toolkit (and
thus isn't free).

Greg Minshall			Novell, Inc.
1-415-947-0998			minshall@kinetics.com


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