RE: Is there a 'ping' in Cygwin?

["Hughes, Bill" <Bill dot Hughes at cox dot co dot uk>]

Sent: 17 October 2003 12:59 From: Thorsten Kampe
>
> * Hughes, Bill (2003-10-17 13:31 +0200)
> > Apologies if this is as dumb as it seems to me, but is 'ping' available
in
> > Cygwin from the prompt?
>
> > I have almost everything installed, and short of using the perl or ruby
> > modules I don't seem to have any ping available in Cygwin.
> > e.g.
> >  $ ping cygwin.com
> > bash: ping: command not found
>
> Same as under Windows, NetWare, Linux or any other decent Operating
> System: either specify the whole path to "your" ping or take care that
> "your" ping is in the "PATH" environment variable. Easy, isn't it?
>
> FYI: The default /etc/profile and /etc/zprofile take care that the
> default path for ping.exe is in bash/zsh $PATH if the default path is
> in your Windows PATH variable (and that is also the default under
> Windows).
>
> Thorsten

That's how I thought it worked, and it was in my path - or so I thought.
Somehow my path was wrong in Cygwin - it contained
"/cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32" which looked ok (too much windows) - but it
should have been SYSTEM32, and I should be using PING.EXE too. This comes
from using "check_case:strict" I suspect.
Is this expected behaviour - I mean did my changing $CYGWIN to include
"check_case:strict" break the default setup?
I shall now fix my path and create symlinks so 'ping' works.
Thanks everyone for the help.

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