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Loto
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Joined: 05 May 2003
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 Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 12:14 am
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Is there a way to set an alias up to ping the MUD? And return the answer? Because it'd be great not to have to go to the character window to ping.
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Kjata
GURU
Joined: 10 Oct 2000
Posts: 4379
Location: USA
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 11:05 am
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A not so elegant solution would be to use the #LAUNCH command to execute a ping and store the results to a file. Like:
#LAUNCH {cmd /c "ping zuggsoft.com > pingresult.txt"}
You can then have an alarm fire after what you consider enough time so the ping has time to finish and the alarm can open up the text file and parse the results. |
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Loto
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Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 12:06 am
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Is it possible to store it to a variable? like instead of pingresults.txt @ping or something?
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geniusclown
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Joined: 23 Apr 2003
Posts: 358
Location: USA
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Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 2:33 pm
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Try using %read:
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#LAUNCH {cmd /c "ping zuggsoft.com > pingresult.txt"}
#ALA +5 {#FILE 1 "pingresult.txt"
ping = %read(1,3)
#CLOSE 1} |
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