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Why not use the command line utilities such as ping and tracert?

NetRanger - Network Configuration And Information Toolkit - ...
NetRanger provides you an easy-to-use Windows application with all necessary tools integrated. You don't need to start a separate command line window and remember the commands and parameters. Everything is just one click away. If you're a system or web administrator and need this information regularly, this can saves you significant time. NetRanger goes much further than just simple command line utilties.

How do I do a ping and tracert?

IPlay Technical FAQ
To do a ping, at the prompt type (without the quotes) "ping (URL of site)" To ping IPlay, you would type (again, without the quotes) "ping www.iplay.net" A tracert is done exactly the same way, except instead of "ping" you would type (without the quotes) "tracert"

Q02: How to use ping command?

faq_router
For example, if your PC connected to a router with IP address 192.168.1.1, after you type C:>ping 192.168.1.1 you get reply from that IP address, that means your PC is connected to the router. For example, if you type C:>ping 66.218.70.50 you get reply from 66.218.70.50, that means your PC is routed through router to the 66.218.70.50 web server. If you type C:>ping www.yahoo.com then you get reply from 66.218.70.50, that means your PC set up with working DNS server.

Q12. What is a trace route (or tracert) command?

ISP FAQ and Problem Isolation
A tracert (or trace route) command tells you all the routers between your PC and the place you want to trace to (can be either an IP address or a URL e.g. www.zytrax.com ) Enter 'tracert 207.35.76.24 -d' (or www.zytrax.com -d). Replace the IP address with the one you want or use the URL of the site if you know it. bbbb is the time is milliseconds that the first attempt took to reach the site. Asterisk means it timed out.

How can I use ePOST from a command line?

FAQ : ePOST Serverless Email System
From the command prompt or a startup script, run the following command in the ePOST directory: java -jar epost-version.jar There are some performance problems with ePOST when a mail client uses multiple connections to download messages simultaneously. Configuring your mail client to use only one connection can help performance. If you have more than one network adaptor in your computer, including virtual network adaptors (like a VPN connection), ePOST may bind to the wrong IP address.

Can I use the command line interface?

iVCD FAQ: MPEG Encoder/Converter & VCD Burner for Mac OS X
Yes. Open the iVCD™ package contents and look in the Resources folder to find the pre-built command line utilites. If you are not sure how to do this then you should use the GUI.

What are command line options and how do you use them?

Baarns: Microsoft Access Developer Frequently Asked Question...
You can automatically open a database, run a macro, or supply a user name or password when you start Microsoft Access by entering options on the command line. For example, the following command line starts Microsoft Access, opens the Northwind Traders database for exclusive access, and runs the Add Products macro: Opens the specified database for exclusive access.

Can I run NTBACKUP from the command line?

Environment settings set by a batch file are not working.
ntbackup <operation> <path> /a /b /d "text" /e /hc:<on/off> /l "<filename>" /r /t <backup type> /tape:n /v This will be backup . If you wanted to eject a tape you could enter eject (but must also include the /tape parameter) The list of drives and directories to be backed up. You may not enter file names or use the wildcard character. To backup multiple drives just put a space between them, e.g. ntbackup backup c: d: etc..

How can I enable the 'ping' command?

Entensys UserGate - Entensys UserGate Proxy Server
Using the 'Ping' commands in UserGate is not possible at the moment, because UserGate does not allow ICMP traffic.

How can I use GNUnet from the command line?

GNUnet FAQ
Yes, except for image previews pretty much all features can be accessed with various command line tools. Use gnunet-search to search for content: bin/gnunet-search GPL gnunet://ecrs/chk/9E4MDN4VULE8KJG6U1C8FKH5HA8C5CHSJTILRTTPGK8MJ6VHORERHE68JU8Q0FDTOH1DGLUJ3NLE99N0ML0N9PIBAGKG7MNPBTT6UKG.1I823C58O3LKS24LLI9KB384LH82LGF9GUQRJHACCUINSCQH36SI4NF88CMAET3T3BHI93D4S0M5CC6MVDL1K8GFKVBN69Q6T307U6O.

Can I use Compare and Merge from the command line?

Compare and Merge: The File Compare Utility for Windows
Yes, this is possible with Compare and Merge version 1.2 and up. See the manual for more information and examples.

How do I use the gpg command line with Windows?

e-ignite: OpenPGP FAQ
If you want to use GnuPG with the Windows Command Line, there are two methods: The easy way and the hard way. The easy way is to configure windows as shown here. This will enable you to open the command line by hitting START > RUN > cmd then just typing the gpg command (for example "gpg --help"). The hard way is that you need to move any file you are working with into the GnuPG directory, then navigate to the particular directory in DOS.

How do I use the GStreamer command line interface ?

Using GStreamer
You access the GStreamer command line interface using the command gst-launch. To decode an mp3 and play it through OSS, you could use gst-launch filesrc location=thesong.mp3 ! mad ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! osssink . More examples can be found in the gst-launch man page. To automatically detect the right codec in a pipeline, try gst-launch filesrc location=my-random-media-file.mpeg ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! osssink .

Do I have to use the command line?

FAQ - The Official Wine Wiki
If you have a sufficiently recent version of Wine (at least 0.9.60), you do not have to use the command line to use Wine. You can use a graphical interface for most things, much like on Windows. If you are using Ubuntu Hardy, you probably do NOT have a sufficiently recent version of Wine. See this page for upgrade instructions. If you decide to use a version of Wine that is older than 0.9.60, you will have to use the command line when you start .exe files.

How do I draw a line to replace the functionality of VB6's Line command?

General - Windows Forms FAQs
Try this code: Dim g as Graphics g = frmMain.CreateGraphics() g.DrawLine(Pens.Black, new Point(0,0), _ new Point(frmMain.ClientRectangle.Width), frmMain.ClientRectangle.Height) g.Dispose() This should draw a line from the upper left to the bottom right...

Is there a CLI (command line interface) version?

Team Discovery TSC FAQ - dslreports.com
First, of course install TSC. Open TSC and right click on the icon in your task bar (near the clock). Select properties. Set your candidate queue to whatever you want. I max mine out. If you have a dialup computer, unselect the online tab. Click ok, and then right click again and select exit. In this directory, there is a file called readme.txt.. it might be a good idea to read this. It's kind of hard to understand. Now edit (with notepad or something like it), the file called launch.

How do I train SpamBayes (command line method)?

SpamBayes FAQ
Given a pair of Unix mailbox format files (each message starts with a line which begins with 'From '), one containing nothing but spam and the other containing nothing but ham, you can train SpamBayes using a command like: python sb_mboxtrain.py -g ~/tmp/newham -s ~/tmp/newspam The above command is OS-centric (e.g., UNIX, or Windows command prompt). You can also use the web interface for training as detailed above.

How do I pass command-line arguments to a test execution?

JUnit FAQ
If the number of parameters on the command line gets unweildy, pass in the location of a property file that defines a set of parameters. Alternatively, the JUnit-addons package contains the XMLPropertyManager and PropertyManager classes that allow you to define a property file (or XML file) containing test parameters.

How do I get the plot command to cycle through line-types?

MATLAB Frequently Asked Questions
MATLAB v4.1 has a an axis property LineStyleOrder for this. Monochrome users can tell MATLAB to always use white lines and cycle through their favorite line styles with the commands: set( 0, 'DefaultAxesColorOrder', [1 1 1] ) set( 0, 'DefaultAxesLineStyleOrder', '-|:|--' )

Question: I don't like command line utilities. Is there a graphical user interface for Potrace?

Peter Selinger: Potrace FAQ
Answer: Yes, there are now several graphical user interfaces (GUI's) for Potrace, contributed by various other people. There are GUI's for Linux and for Mac OSX. I have not tried them myself, so I cannot say if they work or if they have all the features you want. I suggest to try them out. Please look under GUI's and related software on the main Potrace web site.
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