> Yes, I was talking not too long ago about need to learn to program and that > is why I don't mind seeing programming question on the list. So by that same logic wouldn't you want to subscribe to a list more geared toward programming?
> I know about several options for windows, but this script has to run on any > plain old win2k workstation without the NON-TECH users having to do > anything but "double-click" the icon on the desktop and send me the output > file. yea as long as you can get the cygwin runtime dll into their system folder it should be that easy. > the script pings several IPs on our way to the internet, tells > the user what is up and that is down isn't that what traceroute/tracepath is for? windows comes with a version called tracert.exe > It would be nice if I could get it to mail me the file, but I am not > that advanced yet. I haven't tested this, but it may work: echo "EHLO yourmailserver.com" > email.dat echo "MAIL FROM: Some User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" >> email.dat echo "RCPT TO: Dusty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" >> email.dat echo "Subject: Network Status" echo . tracert www.yahoo.com >> email.dat echo "." >> email.dat telnet yourmailserver.com 25 < email.dat > don't know how to print blank lines to the screen in a batch file I believe it's just echo followed by a period on a line of its own. > can't get EDLIN to delete single characters or spaces on a line. .rS1^ZS2 will replace all occurences of S1 with S2 (^Z is control-z). if you omit the ^ZS2 then it will just delete all occurences of S1. > I repeat the exact same steps over and over and wanted to figure out how to > remove the redundancy. I don't understand this statement. > I have attached the script if anyone has any suggestions [...] > set WWW.YAHOO.COM=www.yaho.com typo ^ > echo --------------PINGING WWW.YHAOO.COM----------------- >> > network_test_report.txt typo ^^
