>On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 05:15:03 -0800 (PST), jochen hagenstroem wrote:
>
>>All other ModuleFiles have a MacPerl icon, whil the file "Ping.pm"
>>has the simple text icon.
>>
>>can i get it to work? does it need to be recompiled?
>
>Modules ordinarily ARE text files. If Net::Ping doesn't use XS (=
>compiled in C), then it should work. I don't know this module, but open
>that text file, Ping.pm, and see if you can find strings like the module
>name "DynaLoader" and the function "bootstrap". If you don't, then
>you're in luck. Simply try one of the test scripts, as per the docs.
Net::Ping isn't XS, but in this specific case, it won't work
normally. MacPerl cannot do ICMP echo, which is what ping normally
does. You can do TCP echo and UDP echo, but a lot of places these
days have those turned off, so you may find that Net::Ping isn't very
useful.
>
>--
> Bart.
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