ping really needs a better explanation of its funkiness, malap, 2003-01-19 04:12:16

This typo reported by Malap

ping really needs a better explanation of its funkiness

hehe, allaryin, 2003-12-11 09:56:18

a help file on ping... hmm... laugh, we could just copy a unix man page in there, what say ye? :P

P'raps, acius, 2003-12-11 16:22:36

Something on the lines of 'man rtfm' might be in order, though. Although probably without the inherent profanity.

hm?, malap, 2003-12-12 20:48:13

You don't care for The Fine Manual?

'fess up, malap, 2004-07-02 15:51:47

OK, who deleted ping? It's not in /bin or /bin/soul...

moving, allaryin, 2005-03-09 18:24:41

Am moving this thread to somewhere more appropriate and am begging somebody to rewrite the command :P

If nobody takes care of it soon, I will probably wind up doing it again myself, but oh well.

?, gpfault, 2005-03-11 14:33:54

Define funkiness

sigh, allaryin, 2005-03-11 16:06:37

Ping was our first very complex soul command. I wrote it in a fit of silliness many years ago. It acted similarly to the standard unix command - it sent a short message to the target player every few seconds until they either 'ack'ed in response or until their response timed out.

The unix command ping is used to determine response time in network communication with a remote host.