Hi David,

When talking to Francois Massonneau recently the subject of performing a PING
came up, so you may have an answer for this. 

Most of the REXX FTP functions appear to be implemented with some quite
lengthy timeouts, and it can take 1-2 minutes to decide that the remote end is 
not contactable. I tried to "test" for this using a single FtpPing, however if 
the destination/target system is not contactable, FtpPing suffers from the
same long timeout. Do you know of a way to alter the REXX FTP timeout period
to something like 10-20 seconds rather than 2 minutes?

Alternatively, can you (or someone else) suggest some REXX Sockets code to
perform the equivalent task, if the timeout periods can be controlled from
there?

Thanks.............pk.


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