Hi Mike,

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

 MR> I don't think RxFTP allows for setting the timeout value.

Thats the conclusion I came to...

 MR> You won't be able to use RxSock for pinging, either, because it doesn't
 MR> support ICMP packets.

I thought that may be the case in the quick glance I did over RxSock, but I
was hoping that someone might come up with an option on it...

 MR> To have a functional ping in REXX (without grabbing the 
 MR> output of PING.EXE) would require writing another DLL, 
 MR> that'd allow for a timeout.

And we end back at Davids suggestion......;-)

Thanks for the input on this...........pk.


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