ā01-15-2024 10:59 AM
...after more than 20 years the really important questions come to my mind
usually those "command arguments" are abbreviations, aren't they?
"-i" => "interface"
"-n" => "name resolution"
...
"-t Ping the specified host until stopped."
...is "t" the abbreviation for "until stopped"?
ā01-15-2024 11:05 AM
-t is ping until you press ctrl+C to stopped it
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/ping
and also this letter is change from OS to other
MHM
ā01-15-2024 11:17 AM
Hint:
...you might have missed the point of the original question
The Question is just (I'm no native speaker, I should overthink the wording of my question) about
- which (I assume english) word stands "t" for?
...I don't want to believe, that the MS-programmer decided by random...
So - no technical question, more about "learning english"
ā01-15-2024 11:33 AM
I don't think it stands specifically for one word. Windows describes it as this:
ā01-15-2024 11:57 AM
Because of NIH Syndrome at Microsoft? *nix was already using "-t" to set the TTL of ping packets and *nix ping continued until ^C. Why did MS feel compelled to change that behavior? Maybe for the same reason that they felt compelled to implement "ipconfig" instead of *nix's "ifconfig".
ā01-15-2024 03:38 PM
@r.heitmann wrote:
"-t Ping the specified host until stopped."
...is "t" the abbreviation for "until stopped"?
Possibly - maybe "until terminated".
ā01-17-2024 01:25 AM
Hello,
very good question. Out of curiosity, I asked ChatGPT, but even they (or it or whatever it is) do not have an answer. My guess is that it is an abbreviation of the word 'tenacious' (which basically is a synonym for 'persistent').
That said, what is your native language ?
ā01-17-2024 10:27 AM
I asked ChatGPT, too - but the answer was so stupid(unfortunately no screenshot...) I thought to keep with real people
ā01-17-2024 10:49 AM
"Tenacious" interesting choice.
Although I too am guessing over terminate, it's a term that goes decades back for forcing a running program or process to stop before it does so on it own.
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