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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!tcsi.tcs.com!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!gmdtub!g386bsd!gt From: gt@g386bsd.first.gmd.de (Gerd Truschinski) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: modification to /sbin/ping Message-ID: <4026@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> Date: 25 Sep 93 01:15:20 GMT References: <1868@optigfx.optigfx.com> <BLYMN.93Sep24211709@mallee.awadi.com.au> Sender: news@bigfoot.first.gmd.de Organization: GMD Berlin (FIRST) Lines: 34 In article <BLYMN.93Sep24211709@mallee.awadi.com.au>, Brett Lymn <blymn@mallee.awadi.com.au> wrote: >>>>>> On 21 Sep 93 21:48:00 GMT, mrm@optigfx.com (Mike Murphy) said: > > >[nice idea about making ping return a 1 status on unreachable] > >Mike> >Mike> would work. This would be convenient. > >It would work and would be convenient. [stuff deleted] >Go with the zen of life, contemplate one architecture computing and >see that history will grind you to a pulp if you get in it's way :-) > >Mike> I'm hesitant to suggest this change because the last >Mike> few people who suggested that behavior other than >Mike> stock BSD might be good were burned at the stake... > >Consider yourself mildly toasted. But we didn't have a commercial OS. THIS is something to play with. If we want to have something stable, we buy SCO or VM/370(360). In my opinion BSD is a moving target(a very slow one). 95% of the world is doing something other.... Why couldn't we play the right game? /gT/ -- Gerd Truschinski | INTERNET: gt@first.gmd.de c/o GMD-First Berlin | Yes, this is the sort of scenario I 12489 Berlin-Adlershof | think up to amuse myself in the evenings. Rudower Chausee 5 (13.7) | -- with confirmation from Larisa