CNPING(1)

✨ CNPING(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the cnping page — it lives in the User Manuals section of your friendly neighbourhood manual set, and honestly? it's giving "tiny tool, main character energy." 🎀

💖 NAME 💖

cnping — a Minimal Graphical IPv4 Ping/HTTP Ping Tool 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cnping cnping [host] [period] [extra size] [y-axis scaling] [window title]

no cap, that's the whole invocation. 💅

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

okay so cnping is a minimal graphical real time IPv4 ping tool written in C, and it's literally so cute. it can send pings via ICMP (regular ping, the classic) or via HTTP — which is the moment when ICMP is prohibited and you're like "🙈 what now" and cnping is like "i got u." 🫶

responses show up as vertical bars in a graphical window, and the colour coding is very much a vibe check:

• red bars = a response was not (yet) received 😭
• white bars = the response was received, and the bar's height is relative to the round trip time 🔥

additional statistics are displayed as an overlay, because we love extra info on top of our extra info. ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

fr fr, all options can be passed either positional or as flags — you pick, bestie, both ate. 💅

• -h — domain or IP address of the ping target. for ICMP or http host, i.e. http://google.com 🌈
• -p — period in seconds (optional), default 0.02 ⭐
• -s — ping packet extra size (above 12), optional, default = 0 🎀
• -y — use a fixed scaling factor instead of auto scaling (optional) 🦋
• -t — the title of the window (optional) 💖

🧚 GUI 🧚

these are the keys you press once the window is up, iykyk:

• q — quit 👋
• m — toggle histogram mode 📊
• f — toggle histogram frame mode 🖼️
• c — reset histogram data 🔄

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Charles Lohr <TODO Email> — yes the email is literally a TODO in the page, we're keeping it exactly as-is, no editing the icon's homework. 🫶

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright © 2018-2020 Charles Lohr 💖

⭐ LICENSE ⭐

Rawdraw and CNPing may be licensed feely under the MIT-x11 or NewBSD Licenses. You choose! 👑 (and yes, the page says "feely" — we're not touching it, periodt.)

💀 quick note bestie: that's feely as written in the original, we're just the messenger 🎀

and that's the whole page!! version 1.0, dated Dec 2020, and it's a CNPING(1) situation from top to bottom — mwah, go ping something 💅✨🍓