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   On 4/4/2024 1:15 PM, Hugh Johns wrote:   
   > Running telnet on 22.04.  Is there a command to issue an audible alert when   
   new data appears?  Thanks.   
      
   Telnet is interactive, not job or batch based.   
      
   There is no reason for the feature to exist in the way you want it.   
      
   When you have a Telex machine dialed into Reuters, Reuters sends   
   -G, the bell character, indicating "incoming article". The   
   BEL character 0x07 hex, was intended for the "alert function".   
   Sometimes they would send individual news articles over the Telex,   
   and an operator would not know something was coming in, unless   
   they happened to hear the BEL.   
      
   However, that requires cooperation from the serving end. The   
   people sending the information, need to understand that an   
   audible alert should be included. On a Telex or Teletype machine,   
   a real bell is used, and a hammer strikes it. On a computer,   
   BEL makes a beep noise, which is annoying if used to excess.   
      
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   It's a long shot, but find the Accessibility section of the   
   OS, where help is provided for vision-impaired or hearing-impaired   
   individuals.   
      
   You may be able to select TTS (text to speech) and have the   
   contents of the Telnet window read aloud to you. When new   
   information comes in, you would hear the voice start up   
   while it reads the content.   
      
   But short of editing the source of PuTTY terminal emulator   
   and adding a feature there, I don't think a convenient tick   
   box exists for what you want. In a Google, I can see someone   
   asked for it, but the answers were similar to mine. DIY.   
      
      Paul   
      
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