--- I'm off list, please CC: --- Hi, I'm re-wiring a network and am trying to recreate a system which I read in "the story of ping"[1]. Basically you use a speech synthesiser to call out PING as loud as possible for every successful ping of another machine on the network. This means you can go round the building playing with the cabling looks for errors, and know as soon as you find one :) What I'm basing the system on is: ping attic | sed -e 's/.*/ping/' | festival --tts The problem is that it won't work 'on-the-fly' i.e. as the ping command is running, not once the ping command has finished. I managed to get sed working on-the-fly by using ssed (super-sed). But I can't get festival working on-the-fly, calling out PING as they happen :( Has anyone got something like this working? TIA [1] http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html -- Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------ -0) Hereward Cooper "Being Alone Draws Attention" Somerset, UK /\\ zadok@phreaker.net GPG: 1E1D0C80 zadok.ddts.net _\_v ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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