From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Executing ping.exe in my program.
Date: 16 Jan 2000 21:41:26 -0800
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"Jason Barrows" <jbarrows AT mweb DOT co DOT za> writes:

> Hi there
> 
> Will anyone be able to help me do this.  I can't find any information on
> doing this anywhere.  What I want to do is ping a site from within my
> program, and then record the data received to a file.

Try using `system', or maybe `popen'.

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Nate Eldredge
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