Hi Ueli,
In a message of  to All (), you wrote:
 UR> Hallo All,
 UR> i search a function that can check whether a network station is online. 

 UR> make this at the moment with the funtion if file(), eg.
 UR> if file(\\PC1\C-DRIVE\CONFIG.SYS)
 UR>    * PC is online     else
 UR>    * PC is offline
 UR> endif
 UR> but when a station is offline, this need a long time.
 UR> with witch function can i make this faster ?
 UR> i must read data from 30 Network-Stations, and 10 Stations are average
 UR> offline. and this need a to long time :-(((
 UR> i use here at the moment Lantastic on Dos and OS/2 Stations.
        You are using lantastic? in dos version (6.00 or newer) you have net 
ping that shows the list of active stations, an idea could be execute that 
command from your clipper ap and redirect the output to a file, then look the 
file. I know that's not elegant but I think that could work and be more 
faster than your solution.
Bye, Andres.
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