To ping on Win2k with /View/Pro...
Rebol []
n: ""
call/output ["ping www.rebol.com"] n
print n
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Tretter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 8:51 AM
Subject: [REBOL] Re: Can I Ping in REBOL?
> 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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