How to Ping batch file in winxp?

[MARVELA]

I normally ping a website to see that it is working OK or not and want a ping batch file to make it easier. What should be in it? At the moment I've got the following example and it doesn't appear to work:

@echo off
cd \
ping www.***.com

I also want to make a batch file that launches. exe

[HANAE]

ping www.***.com -t

-t Ping the specified host until stopped. If you want to stop - type Control-C.
Type Control-Break to see statistics and continue.

[Caesar]

The EXE is a DOS (or UNIX) that uses the input-output strandard console + keyboard or when he accepts arguments on the command line and returns a value that can be tested with DOS ERRORLEVEL.

[PAIGE]

dir is the command (or EXE), c: \ is the argument that is passed ala command and> c: \ essai.txt is the redirection of the output, ie the result is written in the specified file rather than screen. From the writing on a file liste_C. bat with not Word that contains the lines dir c: \> c: \ essai.txt echo DONE.