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From: Frank Schmitt <ich AT Frank-Schmitt DOT net>
Subject: Re: inetutils ping not present but portable
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:04:45 +0200
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Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 03:28:10PM +0200, David Strobach wrote:
>> Is there any special reason for ping not to be present in inteutils port? I
>> have successfully compiled ping from inetutils-1.4.2 with no changes to
>> source code.
>
> ping isn't present in 1.3.2.  Also ping is included by default in all
> Windows systems.

Yes, but you've got to specify -c to make it work like the default Unix
ping.

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