Is there a 'ping' in Cygwin?

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Oct 17 13:01:00 GMT 2003


On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:41:38PM +0200, Peter J. Acklam wrote:
> "Hughes, Bill" <Bill.Hughes@cox.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Apologies if this is as dumb as it seems to me,
> > but is 'ping' available in Cygwin from the prompt?
> 
> If you have installed "inetutils", yes.

Ping isn't part of inetutils.  The right answer is, you have ping if
you're running the Windows subsystem on your Cygwin machine.

Corinna

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