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# customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines.
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-fping: fping (a ping like program to send ICMP echo requests)
+fping: fping (send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts)
+fping:
+fping: fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar
+fping: to ping, but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts.
+fping:
+fping: Homepage: http://fping.org/
+fping:
fping:
-fping: fping is a ping(1) like program which uses the Internet Control
-fping: Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to determine if a host is up.
-fping: fping is different from ping in that you can specify any number of
-fping: hosts on the command line, or specify a file containing the lists of
-fping: hosts to ping.
fping:
-fping: http://fping.sourceforge.net/
fping:
fping: