Is there a 'ping' in cygwin?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:09:59AM +0100, Hughes, Bill wrote:
>Sent: 18 October 2003 13:57 From: Thorsten Kampe
>> > I shall now fix my path and create symlinks so 'ping' works.
>> 
>> There's no sense in creating symlinks if you fix the PATH.
>> 
>> Thorsten
>
>Without the symlink I have to use 'PING.EXE', with it I can use 'ping'.
>Cygwin has two main benefits for me - it makes windows usable (mainly for
>work) and it helps me migrate to linux at home. Hence I would prefer to be
>as unix/linux like as possible - so I use "check_case:strict".

Seems like a simpler solution would be to:

mv PING.EXE foo
mv foo ping.exe

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