<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">I've got a revolution app that does a simple<BR>
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do field "runscript" as Applescript<BR>
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shell "ping -c 1 www.apple.com"<BR>
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I then take the result and display it. The question I have is that sometimes this call takes a very long time. (15-20 seconds). Part of the reason I'm doing this ping is to see if the network is active and that the user can reach the outside world. (perhaps there's a better way to do this?) If the user's network isn't up, then I would expect the ping to come back with "unknown server" quite quickly. I'm wondering if the delay is due to the ping-command when launching from Unix, because I notice that sometimes the terminal window freezes for a bit until the ping response comes back. Is there a way to kind of "off-load" this ping process and permit Revolution to churn on other things, or is it stuck because I'm launching this via Applescript? If so, will the new Rev 2.0 solve this problem via the shell command that works on OS X?<BR>
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