DOS command names on non-English Windows

[MachineCode]

One of my apps calls the "ping" DOS command at the user's request, and I was wondering what happens if a non-English Windows PC tried to call it? Is it still called "ping" on a French install of Windows, and so on? Thanks.

[c4s]

"ping" is "pong" on Chinese Windows systems!
Just a joke. It has the same names on other installations as it's just the filename of the executable (see System32 folder)...

[MachineCode]

Thanks for confirming... I wasn't sure if different installs of Windows had different filenames in System32.

[blueznl]

...but note that replies MAY differ from version to version and locale to locale.

[MachineCode]

Yeah, I always ensure that I don't use any English words from the output. On that subject, I assume "ms" (for milliseconds) is the same in every language? Like, "ping" would say "#ms" in its output on any language PC?

[Zach]

Measures should be reported the same I would think?

International standards and all.

Kind of like how a plus sign + means the same thing in math no matter what language you speak

[em_uk]

Why not use COMatePLUS and do the the ping almost internally?

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IncludePath "C:\Program Files (x86)\PureBasic\"
XIncludeFile "COMatePLUS.pbi"

Procedure.s Ping_Status_Code(pingcode.i)

  Select pingcode
 
    Case 0
      Ping_Stat$ = "Success"
    Case 11001
      Ping_Stat$ = "Buffer Too Small"
    Case 11002
      Ping_Stat$ = "Destination Net Unreachable"
    Case 11003
      Ping_Stat$ = "Destination Host Unreachable"
    Case 11004
      Ping_Stat$ = "Destination Protocol Unreachable"
    Case 11005
      Ping_Stat$ = "Destination Port Unreachable"
    Case 11006
      Ping_Stat$ = "No Resources"
    Case 11007
      Ping_Stat$ = "Bad Option"
    Case 11008
      Ping_Stat$ = "Hardware Error"
    Case 11009
      Ping_Stat$ = "Packet Too Big"
    Case 11010
      Ping_Stat$ = "Request Timed Out"
    Case 11011
      Ping_Stat$ = "Bad Request"
    Case 11012
      Ping_Stat$ = "Bad Route"
    Case 11013
      Ping_Stat$ = "TimeToLive Expired Transit"
    Case 11014
      Ping_Stat$ = "TimeToLive Expired Reassembly"
    Case 11015
      Ping_Stat$ = "Parameter Problem"
    Case 11016
      Ping_Stat$ = "Source Quench"
    Case 11017
      Ping_Stat$ = "Option Too Big"
    Case 11018
      Ping_Stat$ = "Bad Destination"
    Case 11032
      Ping_Stat$ = "Negotiating IPSEC"
    Case 11050
      Ping_Stat$ = "General Failure"
    Default
      Ping_Stat$ = "Unknown"
 
  EndSelect

ProcedureReturn Ping_Stat$

EndProcedure

Procedure.s PING_Info(ping_address.s)
  Define.COMateObject objWMIService, PINGInfo
  sysPINGInfo.COMateEnumObject
  strComputer.s = "."
  strTarget$ = ping_address
  objWMIService = COMate_GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" + strComputer + "\root\cimv2")
  If objWMIService
    sysPINGInfo = objWMIService\CreateEnumeration("ExecQuery('Select * from Win32_PingStatus Where Address= $0027" + strTarget$ +"$0027')") 
    If sysPINGInfo
      PINGInfo = sysPINGInfo\GetNextObject()
     
      While PINGInfo
       
        PING_StatusCode$ = Ping_Status_Code(PINGInfo\GetIntegerProperty("StatusCode"))
        PING_ProtocolAddress$ = PINGInfo\GetStringProperty("ProtocolAddress")
        PING_ResponseTime$ = Str(PINGInfo\GetIntegerProperty("ResponseTime"))
        PING_ResponseTimeToLive$ = Str(PINGInfo\GetIntegerProperty("ResponseTimeToLive"))
        PING_Get_Info$ = "Ping Status:   " + PING_StatusCode$ + "   Protocol Address:   " + PING_ProtocolAddress$ + "   Response Time (ms):  " + PING_ResponseTime$ + "   Response Time To Live (ms):  " + PING_ResponseTimeToLive$
                     
        PINGInfo\Release()
        PINGInfo = sysPINGInfo\GetNextObject()
      Wend
      sysPINGInfo\Release()
       
    EndIf
    objWMIService\Release()
    Else
      MessageRequester("Error", "PINGInfoInfo") 
  EndIf
  ProcedureReturn PING_Get_Info$
EndProcedure

Debug PING_Info("www.google.com")

[Shardik]

em_uk,

it would be nice if you would have given credit to the original poster
of your code by mentioning his name and posting the link:
SFSxOI
http://purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=36390

[blueznl]

No, replies CAN differ depending on locale and version. But, frankly, come to think of it, I dunno' if that still holds true. It was true 'in the old days' (but then again I started out with a slab of stone and a chisel, and a [backspace] was hard work and [del] was still an infernal concept)...

[MachineCode]

Why not use COMatePLUS and do the the ping almost internally?

I could, but it adds bloat to my app just to do a "ping" (it adds 53 KB to my exe size; no thanks!). Besides, I wasn't really being specific to "ping", but more about the subject of this thread in general.

[Thorium]

International standards and all.
Kind of like how a plus sign + means the same thing in math no matter what language you speak

Not every country has the same standards, not even for math. One example is how to express floating point numbers. In US you use the point "." to separate the integer part and the fraction part. In germany we use comma and we even call it Fließkommanummer, which is translated: floating comma number.

[c4s]

In germany we use comma and we even call it Fließkommanummer, which is translated: floating comma number.

Fließkommazahl.

There is also the metric vs. non-metric system and whatnot.

[Danilo]

There is also the metric vs. non-metric system and whatnot.

Yeah. Why did this outsiders that left Europe 500 years ago for going to the "new land"
not take European measure units with them?

[Zach]

The Metric system was not devised until 1790, and not officially established until 1800. It is only 211 years old, not even as old as the United States.
Britain didn't adopt Metric until 1975, but you can still find old measurements still in use.

We actually do use the metric system a fair deal in the USA, but the problem with switching outright is all the math involved, and having to convert back and forth. This would be a problem for any large society.

Plus the manufacturer base is starting to skip Metric, and adopt the Decimal Inch because it is more accurate where high accuracy is needed.

[Danilo]

The Metric system was not devised until 1790, and not officially established until 1800. It is only 211 years old, not even as old as the United States.

Ahh, OK, thx. I just wondered because i had seen a documentary that showed first
human relatives to be 7.5 million years old and the first humans in Europe like 6 million years old
and i just remembered that the humans that left Europe 500 years ago were mostly crazy sect members
that were not wanted in Europe. Our world is so confusing...

btw: i live in Ingolstadt/Germany, the town where Adam Weishaupt (a.k.a. George Washington, the 1st president of the U.S.of America)
founded the Illuminati order.