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paping – Cross-platform TCP port testing, emulating the functionality of ping (port ping) – Google Project Hosting

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/22

Hopefully someone will move this to Github before Google code goes down: paping – Cross-platform TCP port testing, emulating the functionality of ping (port ping) – Google Project Hosting.

Paping (pronounced pah ping) is a computer network administration utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) network and to measure the time it takes to connect to a specified port

–jeroen

via:

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Communications Development, Console (command prompt window), Development, Internet protocol suite, Power User, TCP, Windows | 1 Comment »

windows – Find out whether an environment variable contains a substring – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/09/25

Very smart case insensitive way answered by jeb:

if NOT "%foo%"=="%foo:bar=%" echo FOUND

–jeroen

via windows – Find out whether an environment variable contains a substring – Stack Overflow.

Posted in Batch-Files, Console (command prompt window), Development, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Windows | Leave a Comment »

A few links on modifying Windows console (cmd.exe) appearance and behaviour (registry settings, commands, etc)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/09/14

For my own link archive:

Modify cmd.exe properties using the command prompt – Stack Overflow.

On:

  • mode con: cols=XX lines=YY
  • HKLM and HKCU keys Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\CompletionChar with values like CompletionChar and PathCompletionChar

windows – How to change Screen buffer size in DOS Command Prompt from batch script – Stack Overflow.

On setting the cmd.exe parameters through the registry

  • values like ScreenBufferSize and WindowSize
  • setting the values from the .NET Console class with properties like WindowWidth, BufferWidth and BufferHeight

Microsoft Windows XP – Configure the command prompt.

On setting it through the properties for your console prompt.

For Batch – Where is CMD.EXE options stored?.

On setting the registry values for various console window titles.

–jeroen

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