Re: A poor man's activity check :)

From: Boyd Williston (boydwilliston.badstring@yahoo.com)
Date: 01/06/02 

From: Boyd Williston <boydwilliston.badstring@yahoo.com>
Date: 6 Jan 2002 19:54:51 GMT

Ken S. <ken@ke9nr.#nospam#.org> wrote in
news:39ah3ukpdvdf24te1kn7oturnih19klcp8@4ax.com:

> Hi Art -
>
> On Sun, 06 Jan 2002 16:27:05 GMT, artnpeg@nowhere.com (Art Kopp)
> wrote:
>
>>@echo off
>>cls
>>:here
>>netstat -an
>>goto here
>
> If Win98 supports the -n parameter as NT4 does, you can tell netstat
> to loop on its own.
>
> I don't use a .bat file, I have a shortcut with the following as the
> target:
> C:\WINNT\system32\CMD.EXE /k netstat.exe -a -n 5
>
> -n 5 tells netstat that I want to loop with a 5 second delay.
>
> Ken
> http://www.ke9nr.org/
>

Good hint, but this much simpler command for a shortcut works in Win98:

netstat.exe -a -n 5

Control-C will stop it and shut down the command line window. This
shortcut is now in my 'Internet' folder.

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