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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Still looking for ping...
Keywords: Hypercard, xcmd
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Date: 11 Apr 91 13:09:42 GMT
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>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' :-).

The XCMD's are TCP only.

Which hardly matters, since MacTCP won't let you send ICMP packets anyway,
so you can't do a ping with MacTCP.  You'll have to wait for Apple to add
ICMP to MacTCP, or roll your own IP networking software, or buy InterCon's
TCP driver, which has ICMP (right?).
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu  UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner