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From: aj_taylo@sol.brispoly.ac.uk (taylor)
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Subject: Re: monitor break down
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Date: 5 Jun 91 20:22:26 GMT
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In-Reply-To: ytsuji@wucc.waseda.ac.jp's message of 2 Jun 91 00: 42:32 GMT

In article <5776@wucc.waseda.ac.jp> ytsuji@wucc.waseda.ac.jp (Y.Tsuji) writes:

   I have just thought of an important preventive measure to cope with
   the monitor break down that is very likely to happen to us all very
   soon.
     Make a diskette with an auto-start program that prints 
	"Your monitor alone has broken down\n"
	"Do you hear me?\n"
     to the printer and then prints
	"\07\07\07" 
     to the console.


   I thought this simple idea was too good to be kept private.

But the sound of the bell comes out of the monitor, so it won't work
if your printer is off and the monitor is completely dead. Otherwise a
good idea.


--
   Andy Taylor, Bristol Polytechnic, UK

 "... and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,          
 'cos there's bugger all down here on Earth."                               
                                            Monty Python's Meaning Of Life  
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