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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Audible ping response changes to ping.c
To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault)
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 14:25:46 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199702061443.JAA00412@hda.hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Feb 6, 97 09:43:27 am
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> > The changes to ping.c below are essentially cosmetic, to add 
> > the ability to create an audible reponse to pings...
> Since this isn't likely to become universal how about what I do:
> 
> ping foo | sed 's/$//'

I was thinking of a shell script called "aping":

#!/bin/sh
ping $* | while read x
do
        echo "$x"
done

After all, this is what a tools OS is all about...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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