I want to find all the ip addresses on my network - range 122.168.254.1 - 254
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>I have written a small code with ping in a for next loop
>ie run ping &pinga (which contains 192.168.254.1) incemented by 1 for each loop
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>How can I get a return code (which VFP can use) of a successful ping

One simple way that comes to mind is to redirect th output to a file. Buld the command as follows:

ping 192.168.254.1 > c:\temp\junk.txt

then you open and inspect the file (maybe with FILETOSTR())

HTH