From: alain AT qnx DOT com (Alain Magloire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Executing ping.exe in my program.
Date: 16 Jan 2000 21:06:06 GMT
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Jason Barrows (jbarrows AT mweb DOT co DOT za) wrote:
: 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.

You could use popen ().  Or do the ping in C, for this you'll
have to do some network programming i.e open a raw socket using
the ICMP protocol, not necessarly a pleasing experience.




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au revoir, alain
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