also, you have novarsinstrings set, so you probably want to change you $shell var in WSHPing to
$shell='%comspec% /c %windir%\system32\ping ' + $Computer + ' -n ' + $replies
Right now WshPipe is trying to ping $Computer (literally) and same with $replies. I made that change and the ping portion of the script started working.
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Eric
