From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 7 02:45:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA17558 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 02:45:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA17520 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 02:45:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id CAA21722 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 02:15:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA23450; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 05:16:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA11205; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 05:18:08 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 05:18:08 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: "Luc.LEWY" cc: Mikael Karpberg , danny@panda.hilink.com.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Audible ping response changes to ping.c In-Reply-To: <199702070743.IAA13872@bcv64s3e.vz.cit.alcatel.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Luc.LEWY wrote: > Mikael Karpberg wrote: > > [...] although I'd think '-b' would be more logical. > > You think "Hmm... now, what option was it that ping beep? Hmm..." and try > > "-b". You don't think "What made ping audiable?". :-P > > Well, I'm maybe too stupid, but each time I can't remember an > option, format param, I just type 'man command' .. Other than printf(1), I'd like you to find a single program from /usr/share/man/man1 which uses an `a' for "bell". Maybe we should have a new environment option, or something? Sort of like POSIXMEHARDER except it's BEEPMEHARDER? -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk