PING.exe in DOS???

[Hankerton]

Would it work if I took the ping.exe file from system32 on an NT machine, and copied the file onto a MS-DOS boot disk, will it work? Any thoughts? There must be a way to do this.

 

[labgeek]

No. PING requires tcp/ip. MS-DOS by itself does not have a tcp/ip stack. Novell does have a client for DOS that can run tcp/ip, and there are some OSes meant for embedded work that have tcp/ip stacks as well. Even so they are going to have thier own version of ping and the one with Windows wants a winsock.

 

[redbeard1]

If you really are into a challenge... The links below talk about, and link you to microsoft ftp, so you could get and use Microsoft Network Client 3.0. This runs tcp/ip out of dos. Whether or not you can get it all on a floppy, I have no idea.

dos tcp/ip

another one

 

[zephyrprime]

It still won't work unfortunately. Even though ping.exe looks like a dos prorgam and runs in a dos window, it's not actually a dos program. It's a windows 32bit program. It won't run under dos.