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Thread ID: 21234 2002-06-21 01:13:00 How do you make a Ping batch file? Susan B (19) Press F1
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55697 2002-06-22 03:59:00 Susan: I'll go upstairs now and see if anything got through. (it's 4nuts ...)

I'm going to have to work to beat your post-count. I'm up to less than 1% of what I had (according to someone who had a look after I told him about the site).

Addendum to DOS batch files: if you make a batchfile called runping.bat including a line like:
ping %1 %2 %3 %4
you can add arguments/options to the command invoking the batch task:
runping www.pressf1.co.nz -o -f -c:10
those arguments will be appended to the command. You could have:
ping %1 -o -f
to use a set of options which you always want, and add only the sitename.

You can give *up to* the number of "%n" arguments you have given in the file. There's a limit of 9 (which there is way around) . (If you include the line: echo %0 , it will print the name of the batch file. That is actually useful --- it's a DOS thing inherited from UNIX which is used a LOT in system programming).
Graham L (2)
55698 2002-06-22 04:13:00 wuppo, the www is *not* a prefix . It is a hostname . The rest of a sitename is the domain name . I do know about CNAMEs . . . I've got a master and 2 slave DNS servers on my home network . I once understood DNS enough to write the tables . B-) Now I just copy entries .

I "seem to remember" having read "somewhere" that "some" browsers do this, in an effort to make things user-friendly . They certainly try to do this for the trailing "/" directory separator . It makes for more packets . . . but as everyone knows there is infinite bandwidth now .
Graham L (2)
55699 2002-06-22 04:14:00 Sorry, unclear. Bug was that my first post didn't seem to appear, so I posted again. The double post wasn't the result of a bug, but the reason posted twice was. Hope that clarifies it. I am happy to be the first pleb to be a little click-happy.

G P
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Graham Petrie (449)
55700 2002-06-22 05:26:00 Graham,
Not wanting to get into a war of semantics, but there are varying opinions on the definition of hostname . Heres one that disagrees with you:

hostname
1 . (Or "sitename") . The unique name by which a computer is known on a network, used to identify it in electronic mail, Usenet news, or other forms of electronic information interchange .

On Internet the hostname is an ASCII string, e . g . "foldoc . doc . ic . ac . uk" which, consists of a local part (foldoc) and a domain name (doc . ic . ac . uk) . The hostname is translated into an Internet address either via the /etc/hosts file, NIS or by the Domain Name System (DNS) or resolver . It is possible for one computer to have several hostnames (aliases) though one is designated as its canonical name .
wuppo (41)
55701 2002-06-22 05:41:00 Graham L, I tried another email message and it bounced again . Yes, used the 4nuts with your name . You can email me if you like: -t-o-p-a-z-z-1-0-@hotmail . com . Remove all of the hyphens first .

Thank you for the DOS batch files addendum, I'll have a good fiddle later . My main purpose for using ping is just to test that my internet connection is working OK as sometimes it stalls when first connecting and goes to sleep at other times .

Also, sometimes when trying to upload files to my websites the FTP program can't send them and the ping usually shows that the site is unreachable for some reason .

Don't worry about your post count, I'll be bombarding you with more DOS questions when I get my act sorted out and you'll have an opportunity to increase your tally then . ;-) :-)
Susan B (19)
55702 2002-06-23 04:36:00 Susan: my account with them 4nuts seems to be suspended --- maybe the mailbox has filled up. I'll try making another one ... need to grab a computer which I can use for more than 15 mins to do that. Tomorrow maybe. Graham L (2)
55703 2002-06-23 05:29:00 > maybe the mailbox has filled up.

Yes, it will be full of Press F1 notifications!! ;-)

No hurry, just when you're ready. :-)
Susan B (19)
55704 2002-06-23 05:54:00 > Susan: my account with them 4nuts seems to be
> suspended --- maybe the mailbox has filled up . I'll
> try making another one . . . need to grab a computer
> which I can use for more than 15 mins to do that .
> Tomorrow maybe .

May I ask why you can't use a computer for more than 15 mins?

Sounds as if you jump into other peoples houses and use theirs when they're not looking :p
-=JM=- (16)
55705 2002-06-23 06:04:00 > May I ask why you can't use a computer for more than
> 15 mins?
>
> Sounds as if you jump into other peoples houses and
> use theirs when they're not looking :p

That's almost exactly what he does JM! You obviously didn't read the muggie page properly or you wouldn't be asking that. :-(
Susan B (19)
55706 2002-06-23 07:44:00 > > May I ask why you can't use a computer for more
> than
> > 15 mins?
> >
> > Sounds as if you jump into other peoples houses
> and
> > use theirs when they're not looking :p
>
> That's almost exactly what he does JM! You obviously
> didn't read the muggie page properly or you wouldn't
> be asking that. :-(

Yes it did read all the info on that page. But am still lost as to why only for 15 mins.

Is it a library limit or something. Whenever I've been there, they don't seem to police it or anything.
-=JM=- (16)
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