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Re: [MacPerl] testing for net connectivity

At 21:27 -0500 2000.11.30, Scott R. Godin wrote:
>How would I program MacPerl to test for whether or not I have a working
>internet connection before performing other tasks .. I'd like it to die more
>gracefully if possible :)
>
>being on a flaky dialup instead of the cool cable/dsl solutions, makes this
>a near necessity if I want to run timed regular scripts.

I'd probably try to use Net::Ping to ping a known host (or maybe a pool of
known hosts).

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