[CLUE-Talk] ping(8)

[Charlie Oriez]

At 05:33 PM 12/24/2002 -0700, David Anselmi wrote:

>You might hear that ping stands for Packet InterNet Groper.  That seemed 
>contrived to me, and sure enough it is.  Here's the story from the author:
>
>http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html
>
>If you can't be bothered to read it, the name comes from the sonar world 
>(which is what I assumed all along).  But it's a good read, especially the 
>book review from Uzbekistan.

If you're a fan of ping, read the first reader review:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140502416/qid=1040778813/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/103-3510575-6845436




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