[Edited for Sanity and for Typos]<BR><BR>Ok, my assignment is to write a mixed c++/nasm program.<BR><BR>This is the example code my Professor provided to me, which I have already deviated from but ...

If I wished to do a ping (say to www.dslreports.com) inside a C++ program, how could I do it? I know I could call ping and redirect its output but is there something more internal like a function call ...