Actually, I had Jochen's Ping UDF, but it was version 1.0 and had no formatting, making it tough to read and implement.. I grabbed his later (1.1) version and it worked great.
This started out as a "quick & dirty" tool to grab a couple of IP addresses from a small domain for use in migration planning.. didn't think that looking for a new(er) UDF would be worth the time.
BTW - I changed the code to close() the file immediately after the read and it failed exactly the same way. Wound up writing it anew just to try and figure out what was wrong and this time it worked. Still very strange. Maybe a wierd character in the file? The new code is nearly identical.
Glenn
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