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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:31:30 +0200
From: "Peter J. Acklam" <pjacklam AT online DOT no>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: RE: Is there a 'ping' in Cygwin?
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Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
>
> Peter J. Acklam wrote:
> >
> > "Hughes, Bill" <Bill DOT Hughes AT cox DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> >
> > > Apologies if this is as dumb as it seems to me,
> > > but is 'ping' available in Cygwin from the prompt?
> >
> > If you have installed "inetutils", yes.
>
> Ping isn't part of inetutils.  The right answer is,
> you have ping if you're running the Windows subsystem
> on your Cygwin machine.

Thanks for the correction. I realized a bit too late
that I was wrong.

Peter

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