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- Short: netecho checks if a host is available.
- Type: comm/tcp
- Uploader: cosinus@deepthought.north.de (Christian Stelter)
- Author: atte@crash.north.de (Andreas Gelhausen)
-
- System requirements: Kickstart 2.04+ and AmiTCP 4.0+
-
-
- Copyright
- =========
-
- netecho 37.1 - Copyright © 1994 by Andreas Gelhausen, all rights
- reserved.
-
- netecho is freely distributable. No part of this archive is allowed
- to be distributed with commercial software without written permission
- of the author.
-
-
- Disclaimer
- ==========
-
- No warranties are made for this program. All use is at your own
- risk. No liability or responsibility is assumed for any damages
- occured during the usage of netecho. You have been warned.
-
-
- Usage
- =====
-
- netecho is based on the TCP/IP service 'echo' and it's useful to
- check the availability of a certain host within scripts. If the given
- host is available, the string 'NETECHO' will be printed and the return
- value is set to 0 (RETURN_OK). Otherwise an error message is printed
- and the return value is set to 20 (RETURN_FAIL).
-
- Usage:
- netecho <hostname>
-
- Example:
- netecho crash.north.de
-
- Example script 1:
-
- failat 21
- netecho >nil: crash.north.de
- if warn
- echo "crash.north.de is not available!"
- else
- echo "crash is alive! =¦^)"
- endif
-
- Example script 2:
-
- failat 21
- if "`netecho crash.north.de`" eq "NETECHO"
- echo "crash is alive! =¦^)"
- else
- echo "crash.north.de is not available!"
- endif
-
-
- How to reach the author
- =======================
-
- If you have questions, suggestions, bug reports or anything else,
- you can send electronic mails to:
-
- atte@crash.north.de (Andreas Gelhausen)
-
- If it is not possible for you to use this way, you can also send
- letters to:
-
- Andreas Gelhausen
- Graf Spee Str. 23b
- 26123 Oldenburg
- - Germany -
-
-
-