>>>How can I send something from the command line in DOS to a port to see if it is being received on the other end? Thanks!
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>>Check
http://www.vfrazee.com/ms-dos/6.22/help/copy.htm>>
>>However, I do not see an easy way to capture output into extra file, as you can do with > for some commands. Or at least it's not mentioned in this page.
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>I'm not sure if this is exactly what I'm looing for. I just want to see if a port is really listening. DOS NetStat says that it is ESTABLISHED, but I want to see a text string to come through as a check.
I thought along the same lines as Tore, that's why I checked DOS COPY command. I have no other ideas, sorry.
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