this recent playing with runexternal and your other recent comment about
possibly being able to use netmgr to process ping messages got me to
thinking about it... sadly the major problem, that i have found, is that
netmgr won't export a message as text with the control lines in it.

everything else should be pretty easy to do... ummm... well... except not
processing already processed passing through ping messages... hummm...
that's gonna take some more contemplating...

as for the problem part, the only way i can see doing it is with tool that
will read the netmail msg and write it to a text file with the control
lines in it... however, if we're going that far, we might as well go ahead
and do the entire ping thing in this tool...

i had to go take a look to see what tool i'm using for this function and
how it is set up... i'm currently using O/T-Track to perform this
function... O/T-Track is freeware, now, too...

)\/(ark