ping

[Alan Stewart]

~sdpm~
On 16 May 00, at 8:40, Alex Shah wrote:

>~sdpm~
>I believe you are missing a '|' in your open statment:
>
>open(PING, "| ping blah.com");

Put the pipe on the other end, ping feeds the pipe:
  open(PING, "ping blah.com |");

>
>will allow interprocess communication to occur, otherwise you will be
>opening the file itself.
>

~sdpm~

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