Donna Garverick wrote:

> (nice command file, patrick!)

Thanks! The hardest part for me was figuring out the string functions
necessary to determine whether the node given is a name or address. I
finally realized that, even though node *names* can also have a '.' in
them, they will never be completely numeric before the first '.'; at least
they shouldn't be.

Thanks too for the tip about Quit, but while I'm at it I think I'll
rewrite it to incorporate Greg Stigers' tip:

> But you can pack all your nettool command into a single command line
> if you care to, rather than using a command file:
> NETTOOL.NET.SYS 'PING;PING targetsystem;QUIT'

Now *that's* cool! So instead of all that redirection, I can just do:

NETTOOL.NET.SYS 'ping;size !pktsize;number !packets;ping !node;quit'

Thanks, everyone, I love this list!
Patrick (an unhappy Knots user since 1999)