Thanks Gabriel. Sorry everybody... I'm just a wannabe programmer frustrated at my own
foibles. In response to pekr's point about no-can-do because of no root access on unix
(?), I'll just concede that ping is not what I need. I'll call it "hey", "yo",
"rebyo", "boo", "reboo", "psst", "ying", "zing", "pang", "rebkiss", or something. All
I really want is to see an echo, or any other response from a live host.
This doesn't work for me:
>>> port: open/no-wait tcp://target.machine:7
>>> insert port "PING"
>>> copy port
>== "PING"
>>> close port
I get several seconds of nothing, then Cannot connect to (whatever). For (whatever),
I've tried different IPs, domain names, localhost, other ports besides 7, and udp
instead of tcp. But ping works <se grin>, and I can get a connection and response in
rebol using
pop: open/lines tcp://mypopserver.com:110
I'll figure this out if it kills me, or I'll take it to the beginner's rebol group.
Sorry for buggin' y'all. Then I'll put psst.r in the library if/when I'm done, and
when I can get it to log the up/down status of a list of hosts. (Presently I'm doing
this with ping in klever.net's BigBrother, DOS find, redirected batch file output, and
various file concatenations. Yuk!)
--Ken.
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