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Date:      Tue, 04 Feb 1997 12:42:59 +0800
From:      Bruce Murphy <packrat@iinet.net.au>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   ping(8)
Message-ID:  <199702040443.MAA03517@ratbox.rattus.uwa.edu.au>

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Having just had to edit the ping binary by hand (for the nth time but
I never keep them around) so that I could use it to diagnose a remote
problem. (well actually some idiot walking into the room and pulling
the terminator off my test run of thinnet and staring at it) I thought
ask the list whether anyone had any religious objections to me adding
an option to ping(8) so that it emitted a bell character on every
packet reciept.

Something like '-a': audible tone for pings.

I haven't been keeping current the last few months so I apologize if
anyone has already made the change. If there aren't any major
objections, if someone could tell me where to mail a patch (And the
format they'd prefer), I'll make one up against -current this weekend.

Cheers,
Bruce.
--
Packrat (BSc/BE;COSO;Wombat II Designer)
Nihil illegitemi carborvndvm.



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