well Nick I referenced the heading and was n direct reply to Chris's
comment why not use the manual.
In other words if I knew what was expected e.g. ping in Linux not
windows then I would have known to look there to find the command.
I have tried very hard to meet everything that is asked but I am
beginning to think maybe
I should consider tossing the lot in the bucket.
right here are the results of pinging 127.0.0.1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ping 127.0.0.1
PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms
--- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.0/0.0/0.0 ms
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alan
