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From: finn.drablos@sintef.no (Finn Drablos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Response from remote host
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Date: 7 Jun 91 10:57:16 GMT
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A short and simple (?) question:
How do I test, from within a shell script, whether a remote
machine is responding to network requests or not?

I guess that I am looking for something like ping, but
according to the man page, ping should not be used in
scripts ...

Regards,

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