* Hughes, Bill (2003-10-17 13:31 +0200) > Apologies if this is as dumb as it seems to me, but is 'ping' available in > Cygwin from the prompt?
> I have almost everything installed, and short of using the perl or ruby > modules I don't seem to have any ping available in Cygwin. > e.g. > $ ping cygwin.com > bash: ping: command not found Same as under Windows, NetWare, Linux or any other decent Operating System: either specify the whole path to "your" ping or take care that "your" ping is in the "PATH" environment variable. Easy, isn't it? FYI: The default /etc/profile and /etc/zprofile take care that the default path for ping.exe is in bash/zsh $PATH if the default path is in your Windows PATH variable (and that is also the default under Windows). Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
