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From: djberg96@hotmail.com (Daniel Berger)
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Subject: tnsping source code wanted
Date: 12 Dec 2002 13:32:31 -0800
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Hi all,

I'm thinking about writing a Ruby extension to emulate tnsping.  Is
the source for tnsping (and its required headers) available somewhere?
 Or is it closed-source?  I checked on Google and oracle.com, but
didn't find it.

To head off the inevitable, "Why would you want to do that?" type
questions, I'll say this now:

1) Parsing backtick output is a pain, especially when the output
differs on different platforms.

2) I feel like it.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Dan