Forget about Windows API being any use. The safest idea would be to use an
IP Ping - if you have IP. If not then your probably stuffed.
Cheers
"Siegfried Kirchmair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/12/98 19:04:46
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Subject: [DUG]: network
Hi,
How can I check if another machine is up except by using file system
e.g. fileexists('\\other_machine\drive\...).
The problem being that by checking on a file on the network the
program seems to wait for the timeout if the other_machine is down
and my program seems to hang.
I need to check this before the bde tries to access a paradox table
on the other machine as otherwise the bde hangs up.
Is there a kind of ping function?
thanks
sigi
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