AUTHOR:  Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@nerc.com>

 VERSION: 1.0.0

 DATE: 2 July 1996   

 WARNING: USE ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK

 PURPOSE: To be a "dumb" ping, and just report back whether the
 listed host is "alive", "dead" or "no such host"

 TESTED UNDER: NeXTStep 3.2 on my NeXTStation

 USAGE NOTES: pping host1 [host2 host3 ... ]


It will first report back "Checking $HOST"
and then report whether it is alive, dead, or nonexistant.


submitted as:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/pping.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/pping.README

should move to
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/sources/util/pping.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/sources/util/pping.README

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