Purchase REBOL/View/Pro and use shell features. I know I can get it to work
on my win2k box.
Paul Tretter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geraint Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 7:19 AM
Subject: [REBOL] Re: Can I Ping in REBOL?
> 17/04/01 13:56:29, Mat Bettinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Heya Geraint,
> >
> >GJ> Now to the problem I have: I am a Computer Technician for a
> >GJ> college in the UK and the Network Administrator here wants to
> >GJ> write a CGI Ping tool.
> >
> >No. RT hath decreed that there is no use for ICMP in Rebol. So we've
> >had to use other languages for that task.
> >
> >GJ> will another language do it?
> >
> >Certainly.
>
> Thanks for the response, but since Perl can't use ICMP without being
logged-in as the root user and it won't
> work properly with other protocols, which CGI language can we use to ping
our own server periodically where
> security is an issue? Or is it possible to code our own ICMP functions in
REBOL or Perl, and if so, how (bearing
> in mind that I am an amateur REBOL programmer but the Network
Administrator here is fluent in Perl)?
>
> Geraint Jones.
>
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