Well however much I wanted a trivial solution, at least I know I havent asked
a stupid question!
Thanks for the offer Richard. I have seen a similar thing (probably on NONAGS), but I really wanted a UDF so that
everything is in the one file.
The Ping parsing solution therefore seems to be the one to go for.
(have you noticed that you can't use a DOS pipe symbol
in immediate mode, but it works in scripts - Weird?)