Hello, on March 17, 2004 at 07:03:08 Pacific Wengier posted a ping.exe file: Located at: http://newdos.yginfo.net/upload/ping.exe Is there a manual for this file? It works great but I wanna try to write a config file for it. But I have no idea what the format is supposed to be. I need to hard code a IP addy into it. The thread is located at http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/14680.html Thanks -James Aghh...

'Ping.exe' is included with Win9x - as for a 'manual', you can try: ping /? .. or else Google it I'm not insensitive, I just don't care.

jboy, This is not the same ping. With ping /? this one says: C:\temp\_>ping /? NO PACKET DRIVER FOUND M2

Ah, well - what's in a name, I suppose. Still, I hardly expect there to be a manual for a 27Kb file. Wengier hasn't been active here for some months now. I'm not insensitive, I just don't care.

jboy, Indeed, what's in a name. Last week somebody was trying to use f-disk. Can't imagine why it didn't work. And why does DOS often say "bad command or filename" when it could just as easily say something like, "That's very creative syntax" ;( M2

Yes, my mistake - the one from 9x is quite different. Examining the file yielded a minimal set of command line options: PING [-s|/s] [-d|/d] hostname [number] -d /d Debug mode activated -s /s Make of that what you will I'm not insensitive, I just don't care.

Oh yeah, 'Buddy/Linda' and the "F-disk" (heh) For a fact DOS error messages seem to confound most folks - but compared to the ones from early DOS, they're positively intuitive. Almost anything done wrong got you 'incorrect syntax'... and that was that. I'm not insensitive, I just don't care.