Traceroute?

[Randall R Schulz]

Igor,

I don't think that's advisable. I foresee problems when "traceroute" 
appears to exist yet does not act like Unix traceroute. Most especially if 
a script tries to use it. Heaven forefend that some auto-configure script 
out there looks for traceroute for some reason.

Better to acknowledge that it's a similarly named program with similar 
capabilities but not try to pretend it's the same program that's found 
under Unix.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 15:44 2002-09-09, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>$ ln -s /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/tracert.exe /usr/local/bin/traceroute.exe
>         Igor
>
>On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>
> > John,
> >
> > Cygwin is not a world apart. You can invoke Windows tracert (and all other
> > Windows executables) directly from Cygwin.
> >
> > For commonly used commands that reside in a directory I don't otherwise
> > want in my PATH, I just define aliases or shell functions in my .bashrc.
> >
> > Randall Schulz
> > Mountain View, CA USA
> >
> >
> > At 14:39 2002-09-09, John Perry wrote:
> > >On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Dan Vasaru wrote:
> > >
> > >-> Hi John,
> > >->
> > >-> In case you'll settle for a non-cygwin application, traceroute is 
> available
> > >-> on NT platforms as "tracert.exe"
> > >
> > >Yeah. I knew that. :) It turns out I spend 99% of my time in Cygwin now
> > >and just wanted it for this platform. I guess I can always open a Dos
> > >window. :(


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