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On Wednesday, 18 November 1998,
     THOMAS SEELING wrote to IVAN TODOROSKI about PM drawing priorities...

 IT>>   If you run "ping localhost" you should get ZERO
return times for the
 IT>>   packets, but while you're dragging the window the times are EXACTLY
 IT>>   1000ms, which is consistent with my MAXWAIT=1 setting in CONFIG.SYS.

 TS> Have you ever imagined that ping only *sends* one packet a second?
 TS> This is the standard behaviour. ping measures the time elapsed
 TS> until the ICMP echo request answer comes in. Read the
 TS> man^h^h^hdocumentation page for ping in the TCP/IP package.

    I understand perfectly well the behaviour of the ping process.

    You misunderstood my message (not surprising, since I write as I
    think - confusing! :).

                                                            - Ivan -

.!. I've got a mind like a... a... what's that thing called?
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