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From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: new ping option(s) ? 
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On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> See, for someone like me, a beep is even less than relevant.  My PC
> has such a weak speaker that I can't even hear it over the fans and so I
> might as well not have a speaker at all.  For myself, I'd substitute in
> something like ``xmessage "$1 is alive!"'' so I could actually see it.
> 
> In other words, one man's feep is another man's popup notifier and
> ping shouldn't be making unwarranted assumptions! :-)
> 
> 					Jordan
> 

*grin*

You're missing out on such a LOVELY quality ping too... :)

Personally I like it, since it lets me jump behind the server racks and do
the "jiggle" thing (with the cables, silly:) .. Although I'd love to see
ping -f -a <host> work.:)

*hands Jordan a 5W amplifier and speaker for his PC squaker* :)

I missed the original postings(flames?) about the audiable ping, anyone
bring up the option of an external "ping!" program? Sorta like

ping -a -F ping.sh hostname

and ping.sh catted a nice submarine ping reply .au to the sound device or
something. :)

(Oh god I'm going to get carried away soon.. I'd better leave it and goto
sleep :)

Cya

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