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- Subject: Re: Ping.exe with NCSA
- Message-ID: <whiskerp.38.728211804@logica.co.uk>
- From: whiskerp@logica.co.uk (Peter Whisker)
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:03:25 GMT
- References: <1993Jan27.200542.18686@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
- Organization: Logica DCG Ltd., Cobham, Surrey, UK
- Keywords: ping ncsa ping.exe
- Summary: Where's the docs for ping.exe?
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- In article <1993Jan27.200542.18686@henson.cc.wwu.edu> george@henson.cc.wwu.edu (George Hartnell) writes:
- >Subject: Ping.exe with NCSA
- >From: george@henson.cc.wwu.edu (George Hartnell)
- >Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:05:42 GMT
- >Keywords: ping ncsa ping.exe
- >Summary: Where's the docs for ping.exe?
- >Well, a while back the Hapless Technician obtained a file called 'ping.exe'
- >from cac.washington.edu. It lived in a directory called /ncsa/pc. The some-
- >times foolish Technician assumed that ping.exe has some relation to the
- >well-known NCSA package, because of dircetory association. Buutt nooooo....!
- >NCSA responded with a "it's not ours". (NO fault to them, NCSA is a good
- >product for both intel and mac platforms.) Nowhere in archie-land is there
- >any reference to ping.doc, (.txt .src), nor has there been any doc anywhere
- >that ping.exe lived, that the Hapless One could find.
- >As one might muse, ping.exe isn't working with NCSA hardware=packet configs
- >on the SMC8013EWC NIC. It squeals annoyingly about drivers it can't find.
- >WD8003.com doesn't cut, either. (By the way, the Hapless Technician would
- >also view with great kindness anyone who has full doc sites for *that*.)
- >Soooooo, where's the right stuff, eh?
- >
- >Best regards, G.
- >
- >--
- >*****************************************************************************
- >* Who *cares* about opinions, I deny ever having one. *
- >************* George Hartnell, Western Washington University ****************
- >george@henson.cc.wwu.edu, Computer Center, Bellingham, Wa. 98225 206-650-2975
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- Jan Engvald's PDCLKSET gives you :
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- Time setting (eg from an NTP site)
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- Ping (quite a fancy version)
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- ARP analysis of the local sub-net
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- See POLLUX.LU.SE:pub/network/pdclkset/pdclk146.zip.
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- Peter Whisker
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