I'm not sure what to say, except that it works for me. I'm running Vista, I think you said you were using XP, but that shouldn't matter down at DOS level.

I wonder if the "cut" and "paste" programs you downloaded are different from the ones that Paul gave me? If so, perhaps his parameters aren't appropriate.

If you'd like, I can send you the ones I got from Paul, so you can see if that makes the batch file work properly.

tanstaafl.

edit: Another possibility is that your ping command and my ping command produce differently formatted output. Here is what my ping command produces after ping -n 1 google.com


Pinging google.com [74.125.73.99] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.73.99: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=53

Ping statistics for 74.125.73.99:
Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 1, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 55ms, Maximum = 55ms, Average = 55ms


Does that match up with yours?

db