How to ping a machine in a simple way?

[David Broadwell]

"Lexy Zhitenev" <zhitenev at cs.vsu.ru> wrote in message
> My friend in Java just creates a socket on 139 port, and if it fails - the
> machine is not available.
Why 139?

That may not be a good test, if the machine is firewalled, you'd not see a
responce on 139 either.

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David Broadwell