a *fast* check for whether another machine is on the local network?

Dr. Hawkins dochawk at gmail.com
Thu Jun 13 17:54:07 EDT 2013


On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 2:13 PM,  <dunbarx at aol.com> wrote:
> Would the "openSockets" function do what you need? Not as direct as what
>OS9 could do, but those days are over. And I am sure there must be an
>appleScript gadget that could query the network.

But that only handles connections already open, doesn't it?

What I'm really looking at is a laptop that spends some of its time in
the office, but also goes to court, where an attorney may want to make
time entries.

At that point, I'd like the laptop to simply figure out where it is
without waiting for a timeout.

The problem with applescript is that I'll be selling more windows than
mac for the foreseeable future, and I'm tryng to limit the number of
areas in which windows gets short-featured for its deficiencies . . .




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