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RevisionDateAuthorComments
 1.50  10-Sep-2011  wiz Another option order fix.
 1.49  10-Sep-2011  wiz Sort options and descriptions in standard order.
Remove unecessary Bk/Ek in SYNOPSIS.
 1.48  10-Sep-2011  christos PR/45257: Instead of passing a 32bit sec and 32 bit usec timestamp in little
endian format by default, pass a struct timespec in native host format. Add
-C flag to produce a compatible timestamp like before.
 1.47  21-Mar-2006  pavel Clarify and correct the description of the -R (Record Route) flag.
Reviewed by jnemeth, whith help from him.
 1.46  21-Mar-2006  pavel Bump date, requested by wiz.
 1.45  21-Mar-2006  pavel -I does work for unicast pings too (it sets the source address).
With some language help from dsl.
Reviewed by jnemeth.
 1.44  08-Jun-2004  cjep add -h option in synopsis. Fixes PR#25863 from Kouichirou Hiratsuka.
 1.43  07-Aug-2003  agc branches: 1.43.2;
Move UCB-licensed code from 4-clause to 3-clause licence.

Patches provided by Joel Baker in PR 22308, verified by myself.
 1.42  25-Feb-2003  wiz .Nm does not need a dummy argument ("") before punctuation or
for correct formatting of the SYNOPSIS any longer.
 1.41  26-Oct-2002  jdolecek change description of -w option to match reality
this fixes bin/12113 by Jim Bernard and bin/16011 by gabriel rosenkoetter
 1.40  01-Oct-2002  wiz New sentence, new line. By Robert Elz with minimal fixes.
 1.39  06-Apr-2002  bjh21 .Nm . -> .Nm "" .
 1.38  20-Dec-2001  wiz Sync options with usage.
 1.37  16-Nov-2001  wiz Simplify markup, use .Nx, sort sections.
 1.36  16-Nov-2001  wiz Whitespace nits
 1.35  10-Oct-2001  yamt - use IP_MAXPACKET instead of 65535.
- change max packet size from 65468 to 65467(= IP_MAXPACKET-60-8).
 1.34  25-Jun-2001  jhawk Update Dd to rev 1.31 (ipsec changes)
Some hosts and gateways ignore record route, but not "many." Of course,
more are firewalled. But that's not what was meant here.
Expand flood-pinging admonition to include multicast addresses.
Note flags that conflict with ping under Solaris and FreeBSD.
Reorder BUGS in rough order of significance.
 1.33  05-Jun-2001  wiz Drop arguments of .Os.
 1.32  03-Apr-2001  jhawk Xr icmp(4), inet(4), ip(4)
 1.31  02-Jul-1999  itojun IPsec support (specify policy on ping - quite useful to test
if IPsec is working or not) is added.
 1.30  19-Jun-1999  sommerfeld Support for ping -a: beep when packet received.
Slightly tweaked from version submitted by andrew@untraceable.net in PR7815
 1.29  12-Jun-1999  tron Fix a typo.
 1.28  29-Apr-1999  mjl Remove duplicate paragraph. Closes PR/7498 by Geoff C. Wing.
 1.27  07-Mar-1999  mycroft branches: 1.27.2;
Clean up SYNOPSIS formatting.
 1.26  22-Dec-1998  jtk typo: should be loose source routing
 1.25  17-Nov-1998  msaitoh delete .TP (because this document is written in "mdoc" format)
 1.24  25-Oct-1998  christos Update to the 980911 version from ftp.rhyolite.com:/src/ping.tar.Z
 1.23  14-Sep-1998  tv Restrict -l to the superuser as suggested in PR 3973 from <soren@t.dk>.
Also distinguish "-f" from "-i 0.x" in the superuser restriction messages.
 1.22  29-Apr-1998  fair fix bad .Xr references
 1.21  28-Apr-1998  fair Change occurrences of "UNIX" to .Ux or .At as appropriate.
 1.20  06-Feb-1998  perry macroize BSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and misc cleanup
 1.19  06-Nov-1997  fair Fix man page confusion about the -R option, per PR#4246
Add some paragraph breaks for readability,
and a traceroute(8) reference.
 1.18  03-Oct-1997  hubertf branches: 1.18.2;
PR misc/4206: internal -> interval;
Reported by William O Ferry.
 1.17  15-Sep-1997  lukem * cleanup .Nm
* deprecate register
* cleanup for WARNS=1
* bzero(), bcopy() -> memset(), memmove()
* prefix hex numbers with '0x'
 1.16  26-Jun-1997  kleink Fix formatting directives; from SAITOH Masanobu <msaitoh@spa.is.uec.ac.jp>
in PR misc/3795.
 1.15  01-Jun-1997  christos Update from Vernon Schryver, fixing the kluge to flush the route cache.
 1.14  10-Apr-1997  mikel flag is -f, not --f; from Saitoh Masanobu in PR misc/3469.
 1.13  18-Mar-1997  christos PR/3329: From David Jones: Add F_ONCE
 1.12  11-Mar-1997  christos - Use err, warn, errx
- Don't use floor, because we would need libm
- Add maxwait option from old ping
- Add a centralized gethost() to get hostnames
- Fix PR/1014 and PR/2017; (adds -D, -T options, and -I and -t for unicast)
- Document exit status
 1.11  06-Nov-1996  cgd make ping(8) print out statistics when given a SIGINFO.
 1.10  31-Dec-1995  ghudson The maxwait option was accidentally placed in the "options for
multicast pings" section of the description.
 1.9  02-Oct-1995  pk Fix typo (from Mark Weaver PR#1556);
 1.8  27-Jul-1995  ghudson Add and document options -w (to specify a maximum wait timeout, useful
for testing network interfaces) and -S (to specify a source address
on a machine with multiple interfaces).
 1.7  18-Mar-1995  cgd convert to new RCS Id conventions; reduce my headache
 1.6  29-Nov-1994  glass misc/596: fix from James Jegers for missing host and add cross ref to spray.
 1.5  23-Sep-1994  mycroft Merge with 4.4-Lite version.
 1.4  01-Aug-1993  mycroft Add RCS indentifiers.
 1.3  23-Mar-1993  cgd changed "Id" to "Header" for rcsids
 1.2  22-Mar-1993  cgd added rcs ids to all files
 1.1  21-Mar-1993  cgd branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision
 1.1.1.4  16-Sep-1997  lukem imported from lite-2
 1.1.1.3  11-Mar-1997  christos From Vernon Schryver <vjs@sgi.com>
 1.1.1.2  23-Sep-1994  mycroft Import original 4.4-Lite version.
 1.1.1.1  21-Mar-1993  cgd initial import of 386bsd-0.1 sources
 1.18.2.1  06-Nov-1997  mellon Pull rev 1.19 up from trunk (fair)
 1.27.2.1  24-Jun-1999  perry pullup 1.27->1.30 (sommerfeld)
 1.43.2.1  13-Jun-2004  jdc Pull up revision 1.44 (requested by cjep in ticket #459).

add -h option in synopsis. Fixes PR#25863 from Kouichirou Hiratsuka.

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