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Recent content by greavemr
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system() return
hello Again, Please ignore my last comments, its been a long day!!! Why not try and do the ping from within the code rather than calling an external command, here is some example code that may be useful: #!perl.exe use Net::Ping; use Time::HiRes qw( gettimeofday tv_interval ); $bytes =... -
system() return
Hi, I think that the command that you want to use is: $command = "ping 127.0.0.1"; system $command this should work correctly!!! Hope this helps!! mark
