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Ping prog ?

Dec 10, 2003 12:10AM PST

win98se

I've been playing with the ping comm/prog.

It seems to work well but as soon as the prog finishes it closes and erases the screen.

At best you only have a few seconds to look at the results and then it's gone.

Any way to stop the prog from exiting/erasing the screen?

Or maybe send the results to another file?

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What Ping Pong?
Dec 10, 2003 12:37AM PST

"Tip: If you are asking for help to troubleshoot a computer-related problem, please be sure to include all the necessary information (ie: operating system, model number, hardware, software, etc) that will help others identify your problem for a speedy resolution."

I think I remember some dozen ping pong programs I've seen over 20 years. You might want to supply the make and version of the one you are noting. Also, sometimes you find the AUTHOR in the HELP ABOUT box which you can try to contact the author to see if they have a fix for the issue.

Some games that came with the OS are simply "demos" and nothing more.

Bob

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Third reading. I'm guessing here. PING.EXE the command line tool.
Dec 10, 2003 12:42AM PST

If you are asking about PING.EXE as in the command line tool, using it in a command window AKA "DOS window", then the results stay on the screen for copy/paste elsewhere.

I won't inundate you that this is Windows 101 knowledge, but such command line skills can really pay off. You don't have to learn DOS, but just the commands you need.

There is another method to tell the command window not to exit on close, but I would find that a very annoying setting, but I mention it for completeness.

Bob

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Third reading is correct-- ping.exe
Dec 10, 2003 1:08AM PST

I was trying to use it from the RUN line in windows.NG

As soon as I switched to a dos window and ran it from there it works fine.

Thanks for the help.

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A batch. 'Change' any of these '13' lines to fit your system and needs.
Dec 10, 2003 1:06AM PST

@ECHO OFF
ECHO Preparing TraceRoute FILE "Yahoo" ............. Please wait!
ECHO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . >> d:\T1.TXT
ECHO Yahoo>> d:\T1.TXT
ECHO | MORE | DATE | FIND "Current" >> d:\T1.TXT
ECHO | MORE | TIME | FIND "Current" >> d:\T1.TXT
rem %WINDIR%\tracert.exe 207.46.131.143 >> d:\T1.TXT
%WINDIR%\tracert.exe www.yahoo.com >> d:\T1.TXT
ECHO. >> d:\T1.TXT
ECHO | MORE | TIME | FIND "Current" >> d:\T1.TXT
ECHO To compare the time it took, subtract the STARTING time from this time >> d:\T1.TXT
CLS
notepad d:\T1.TXT

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Re:A batch. 'Change' any of these '13' lines to fit your system and needs.
Dec 10, 2003 1:35AM PST

Bill,thanks for the reply.

R.P.'s msg above showed me what should have been obvious 'run it from a dos window'.

Works fine and gives me what I want.