A.P. Lawrence

This article is from a FAQ concerning SCO operating systems. While some of the information may be applicable to any OS, or any Unix or Linux OS, it may be specific to SCO Xenix, Open Desktop or Openserver.

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TCP/IP and NFS FAQ

Why doesn't ping stop?

If you want ping to act like DOS, use "ping -c 5"

The default on SCO is to keep running until you hit the interrupt key- which is usually DELETE on SCO, not CTRL-C

On 5.0.6, J.P. Radley reminds me that the -o is equivalent to -c1, and that a new flag (-a) beeps on every returned packet.

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