Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <4989AFD7505BD611961B0002A5DA3E740382BE65@NNHML2> From: "Hughes, Bill" To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" Subject: RE: Is there a 'ping' in Cygwin? Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:09:59 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sent: 18 October 2003 13:57 From: Thorsten Kampe > > I shall now fix my path and create symlinks so 'ping' works. > > There's no sense in creating symlinks if you fix the PATH. > > Thorsten Without the symlink I have to use 'PING.EXE', with it I can use 'ping'. Cygwin has two main benefits for me - it makes windows usable (mainly for work) and it helps me migrate to linux at home. Hence I would prefer to be as unix/linux like as possible - so I use "check_case:strict". -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/