OT: diagnosing with ping (was Re: Dejawin Lost Connection)

[Bill Vermillion]

In the last exciting episode of the filePro saga, 
Kenneth Brody was heard to say:" 
if: Thu, Jul 22 21:39  
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Kenneth Brody said: 

> Bill Vermillion wrote:
> [... ping differences *nix vs Windows ...]
> > 
> > Considering that almost all networking in MS came from the orignal
> > BSD code - you could see the Regents copyrights in almost all their
> > networking programs - I bet they just changed to be different.
> > Perhaps to make it look like they had their own implementation.
> [...]

> I recall years ago (perhaps when Win95 first came out?) seeing
> an article in one of the DOS/Windows magazine a mention of this
> neat "utility from Microsoft called tracert".

And prior to that there was a freeware program for Win 3.1 that
traced routes and gave a graphics diagram with little icons for
each router along the way.

This was before MS discovered TCP/IP and you had to have Trumpet
Winsock in order to use networking.  Boy did MS miss the boat on
TCP/IP at first.

Bill
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