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I am writing an alias to ICMP ping machines using the ping command from the windows command line (winXP).

Code:

 iping { if (!$1) { echo -a Syntax: /iping &lt;nick|ip|hostname&gt; | halt } 
  if (. isin $1) { run C:\WINDOWS\system32\ping.exe $1 } 
  else { var %x = $address($1,5) 
    if (%x == $null) { echo -a Nickname not in IAL, IAL not enabled, or IAL not filled up. Can't find user's IP or hostname. | halt } 
    else { %x = $gettok(%x,2,64) | run C:\WINDOWS\system32\ping.exe %x } 
  } 
}

But this closes the command line window, after the ping command finishes. Does anyone have any idea how to keep the window alive?

Thanks in advance.

run /k path

run cmd.exe /k ping $1

thank you both for your answers, finally solved the problem thanks to Iori

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I had tried to run it using cmd.exe, but hadn't worked. The /k switch made it just fine. Thanks again