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Re: inetutils ping not present but portable
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Frank Schmitt <ich at frank-schmitt dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:44:14 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: inetutils ping not present but portable
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Frank Schmitt wrote:
> 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.
Umm, 'alias'?
Igor
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