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Dear all,

does anyone know how to ping a host using revolution?

Would be very useful to me...!

Regards

Dennis

Hi Dennis,

Here's one:

http://runrev.info/Ping.htm

Best,

Mark

Mark, thanks for posting the link to the RunRev.Info site. Cool stuff - I just added it to the Links page at revJournal.com:

http://www.revjournal.com/links/

Thanks, Richard,

but you might want to direct people directly to

http://runrev.info/search.html

rather than

http://runrev.info/Ping.htm

;-)

Mark

As usual, nice stuff on your site - one piece of news though is that open/read/write process finally works on OS X with 2.9!

Best,

Mark

Hello all,

many thanks for your answers.
The sources mentioned are nice, but I have the following problem:

All the code that I can find there relies on the Windows command prompt Ping function. It actually executes the ping command from Windows.

This is not very useful because the output of a command prompt ping is a big paragraph of info. And in my case where the Windows installation is not in English, even less useful.

Any other info that someone has on how to ping and actually have useful feedback inside Revolution? For example, some kind of function that would return true if host is live and false if host was not reached.
Maybe there is a product by someone somewhere?

Many thanks

Dennis Zervas

Hi Dennis,

The example at runrev.info is for Mac OS X. I didn't know you were asking for a Windows example. Have you actually tried using the ping command on Windows? With smart parsing, you should be able to retrieve the relevant information, regardless of the language.

Best,

Mark

Mark wrote:Thanks, Richard,
but you might want to direct people directly to
http://runrev.info/search.html

rather than
http://runrev.info/Ping.htm

Good idea - done:
http://www.revjournal.com/links/

Thanks Richard :-)

Mark