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From: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick)
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Subject: Re: Still looking for ping...
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Date: 11 Apr 91 03:39:11 GMT
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rainwatr@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Don Rainwater) writes:

>Well, I'm still looking for a way to 'ping' an internet node from
>within Hypercard.  Someone mentioned the tcp hypercard tools that are
>available on apple.com (I believe).  These xcmds allow you to do a great
>many things using tcp (open a socket, listen on a socket, etc), but
>nothing jumped out at me and said 'ping' :-).  Am I missing something
>here?

MacTCP does not currently allow you access to ICMP, which is the
part of the TCP/IP protocol suite which 'ping' uses. There is some
reason to believe that a future release of MacTCP will have such
access. As soon as the new version comes out, I will write a desk
accessory to do ping myself and put it out on the net. It's a pretty
easy program.

pr
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