what is '0% loss' ???

Never seen that ! is it 9x ?????
In NT a ping reply is for example:

Reply from 10.131.96.20: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=124

i use this in 3.63 (no temp files needed):

code:

---

$machine = "whatever"
$timeout = 5000
$pingloop = 6
gosub ping
if $reply
     ; continue 
else
     ; loop next
endif
.
.
.
  ing
    $reply = 0
    $c = 0
    do
        shell '%ComSpec /c /e:1024 ping ' + $machine + ' -n 1 -w ' + $timeout + ' | find /C "TTL=" > nul'
        if @error = 0
            $reply = 1
            return
        endif
        $c = $c + 1
    until $c = $pingloop
return

---

J.

[ 02 August 2001: Message edited by: jpols ]

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