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Answer» Smack head didnt know you could get it on Microsofts website. Quote from: macdad- on February 02, 2009, 04:09:27 PM Smack head didnt know you could get it on Microsofts website. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=endang thats got a lot of tools and they are all command line?Quote from: macdad- on February 03, 2009, 12:41:22 PM dang thats got a lot of tools and they are all command line? Many of them are. awesome, gotta download this. and thanks for the link Quote from: Dusty on February 01, 2009, 11:09:49 PM Flux - Welcome to the CH forums. Get used to it - you cannot access Dos in Win XP, Win XP is not built on Dos. What you can use is a Windows program named Cmd.exe which is a Dos emulator and runs in a window so to CALL it Dos is a misnomer. You can, however, run things like DosBox. Here is a list of NT commands for use at the XP Command Line or in scripts. Some are available only in XP Pro, others must be extracted from the Resource Kit. Good luck. dude thanks for the link. i really appreciate your HELP. im sure these would do.Quote from: macdad- on February 02, 2009, 06:27:04 AM PING -n 1 -w 1000 1.1.1.1 >nul can be used as a wait command, or just to ping a computer or server on your network. the 1000 is the timeout, that makes PING a excellent wait command. and the 1000, is in milliseconds so that would make PING wait for 1 sec. It is actually a very bad practice to ping an IP address that you don't administer or have control over. Besides not being polite (depending on how it is used and how often it could be considered a denial of service attach which I know is not your intent), it is not reliable. For example, I assume by your example that your are expecting 1.1.1.1 to not respond to your ping (ICMP echo request). If the owner of that IP decides to one day enable ICMP echo for that IP address, then your command above would only pause for a few milliseconds. It is much better to ping something that you have control over, such as localhost, or 127.0.0.1. You can use Code: [Select]ping -n 2 localhost >NULto pause for about 1 second (the number should be n+1 where n is the number of seconds to pause because the 1st reply should be INSTANT, and the others will wait 1 second by default). I hope nobody takes offense to this ... just trying to point out a better way. good point

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didnt know you could get it on Microsofts website. Quote from: macdad- on February 02, 2009, 04:09:27 PM

*Smack head*
didnt know you could get it on Microsofts website.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=endang thats got a lot of tools
and they are all command line?Quote from: macdad- on February 03, 2009, 12:41:22 PM

dang thats got a lot of tools
and they are all command line?

Many of them are.

awesome, gotta download this.
and thanks for the link Quote from: Dusty on February 01, 2009, 11:09:49 PM

Flux - Welcome to the CH forums.

Get used to it - you cannot access Dos in Win XP, Win XP is not built on Dos. What you can use is a Windows program named Cmd.exe which is a Dos emulator and runs in a window so to CALL it Dos is a misnomer. You can, however, run things like DosBox.

Here is a list of NT commands for use at the XP Command Line or in scripts. Some are available only in XP Pro, others must be extracted from the Resource Kit.

Good luck.

dude thanks for the link. i really appreciate your HELP. im sure these would do.Quote from: macdad- on February 02, 2009, 06:27:04 AM

PING -n 1 -w 1000 1.1.1.1 >nul

can be used as a wait command, or just to ping a computer or server on your network.

the 1000 is the timeout, that makes PING a excellent wait command.
and the 1000, is in milliseconds so that would make PING wait for 1 sec.

It is actually a very bad practice to ping an IP address that you don't administer or have control over. Besides not being polite (depending on how it is used and how often it could be considered a denial of service attach which I know is not your intent), it is not reliable. For example, I assume by your example that your are expecting 1.1.1.1 to not respond to your ping (ICMP echo request). If the owner of that IP decides to one day enable ICMP echo for that IP address, then your command above would only pause for a few milliseconds. It is much better to ping something that you have control over, such as localhost, or 127.0.0.1. You can use
Code: [Select]ping -n 2 localhost >NULto pause for about 1 second (the number should be n+1 where n is the number of seconds to pause because the 1st reply should be INSTANT, and the others will wait 1 second by default).

I hope nobody takes offense to this ... just trying to point out a better way.
good point

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