Short: Netecho checks if a host is available. Author: atte@crash.north.de (Andreas Gelhausen) Uploader: cosinus deepthought north de (Christian Stelter) Type: comm/tcp Architecture: m68k-amigaos System requirements: Kickstart 2.04+ and AmiTCP 4.0+ 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 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