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Date:      Tue, 04 Feb 97 11:04:16 +0100
From:      garyj@frt.dec.com
To:        packrat@iinet.net.au
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ping(8) 
Message-ID:  <9702041004.AA23035@cssmuc.frt.dec.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Bruce Murphy <packrat@iinet.net.au>  of Tue, 04 Feb  97 12:42:59 %2B0800.

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packrat@iinet.net.au writes:
> 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.
> 

seems resaonable to me. Why not '-b' for "bell" ? Seems more
intuitive somwhow.

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