VFP6/SP3/MDAC21, WinNT4/SP5

At the command window I type

run "@ping 192.168.200.130 -n 1 -l 128 -f > pingresult.out"

And I see the annoying black command window box and a file gets written. I'd like to get rid of that file, first of all.


If I type this at the command window

run /n 2 "ping 192.168.200.130 -n 1 -l 128 -f > pingresult.out"

VFP says "RUN/! command failed". Getting help leads me to believe I don't have enough memory or something. I have 128mb of RAM and 256mb of swap space.


All I am trying to do it ping a remote host to see if my 'net connection is solid, save the output from ping to a text file, which I append to a cursor for quick reading the result (the aspping object from the serverobject web site makes me c0000005 every time).

Help?!