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Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 19:13:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Traceroute?
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Randy,
It's worked for me so far.  But I see your point.
	Igor

On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote:

> Igor,
>
> I don't think that's advisable. I foresee problems when "traceroute"
> appears to exist yet does not act like Unix traceroute. Most especially if
> a script tries to use it. Heaven forefend that some auto-configure script
> out there looks for traceroute for some reason.
>
> Better to acknowledge that it's a similarly named program with similar
> capabilities but not try to pretend it's the same program that's found
> under Unix.
>
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
>
>
> At 15:44 2002-09-09, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >$ ln -s /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/tracert.exe /usr/local/bin/traceroute.exe
> >         Igor
> >
> >On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> >
> > > John,
> > >
> > > Cygwin is not a world apart. You can invoke Windows tracert (and all other
> > > Windows executables) directly from Cygwin.
> > >
> > > For commonly used commands that reside in a directory I don't otherwise
> > > want in my PATH, I just define aliases or shell functions in my .bashrc.
> > >
> > > Randall Schulz
> > > Mountain View, CA USA
> > >
> > >
> > > At 14:39 2002-09-09, John Perry wrote:
> > > >On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Dan Vasaru wrote:
> > > >
> > > >-> Hi John,
> > > >->
> > > >-> In case you'll settle for a non-cygwin application, traceroute is
> > > >-> available on NT platforms as "tracert.exe"
> > > >
> > > >Yeah. I knew that. :) It turns out I spend 99% of my time in Cygwin now
> > > >and just wanted it for this platform. I guess I can always open a Dos
> > > >window. :(

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