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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: "ping" for the Mac
Keywords: ping
Message-ID: <659@newave.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 91 03:35:58 GMT
References: <1991Feb19.192111.19139@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III)
Organization: NeWave Communications Ltd, Eden Prairie, MN
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In article <1991Feb19.192111.19139@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> bmb@bae.bellcore.com (Bart Mendez) writes:
> I am looking for a Mac version of the "ping" software that is available on
> Berkeley Unix systems.  Can anyone point me in the right direction?

If you don't find what you are looking for, check out NSCA Telnet.  It
responds to pings issued from a BSD machine.

BTW, NSCA Telnet has the coolest "about" box of any program that I have
ever seen on the Mac.

-john-

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