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to: Paul Quinn
from: Wilfred van Velzen
date: 2016-09-04 11:22:34
subject: Re: New: PING/TRACE function. Tests requested.

Hi,

On 2016-09-04 11:25:54, Paul Quinn wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "New: PING/TRACE function. Tests requested.":

 PQ>> Thank you, kindly.  I'll ponder more deeply over it after I get out
 PQ>> of bed, later...

 PQ> It works!  No sparks or smoke on the first execution at a DOS prompt.  And
 PQ> I got a nice 'how to use' help line I had forgotten about, since I didn't
 PQ> provide any command-line arguments.  :)

 PQ> Oh, and I like your simplification of the ^Via line scanning.  It speaks
 PQ> for your experience with the language.

I was touching it anyway because of the end of line issue in the Via line
copying, so the simplification was the logical thing to do. ;)

There's probably more places the same thing can be done in the code, but I
didn't want to do a complete overhaul. ;)

 PQ> So, with that I then caused a remote PING... which also succeeded!

I'll test it too. ;)

 PQ> Yay! Thank you muchly.

You're welcome.

Bye, Wilfred.


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