Re: Ada program needs to ping another machine.

["R. Srinivasan" <rajasrinivasan@cox.net>]

I have such an animal (sort of). I used AdaSockets with some modifications.
Unfortunately the version of AdaSockets on Linux available at that time was
not identical to the Windows version at least in the specifications. Perhaps
such issues have been ironed out now. I will be happy to send my copy of
"netmon" which can ping a list of host names in the same invocation if you
like.

I dont have it here but will have it tomorrow night. If anybody would like
to receive it please email me at r.srinivasan@cox.net (Remember however it
compiles/runs on Windows only).


"Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
news:slrna4bc3i.2cl.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no...
> I'm making a small Ada program (on my spare time) that I want to be able
> to run from both Linux and Windows. The problem is it need to check if
> another machine is on or off and display this in a small GUI interface.
> I can do this by using the ping command on Linux, but I would rather
> learn how to do this from Ada. I'm not asking for a solution (of course
> if somebody has something they want to share it would be nice), but some
> hints on what I should read up on to find out how to do this. Can I use
> sockets for instance? I'm developing on Linux and I don't have much clue
> about Windows programming so I would like to make this as portable as
> possible (that is, just recompiling in windows would be nice).
>
> Eventually it would be nice to evolve the program into a talk program (a
> program where one write simultaneously on a split screen) as the wintalk
> program is rather unstable and I would hope Ada could increase
> security.
>
> Preben
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