Playing quicktimes while pinging

[Dar Scott]

On Jun 21, 2004, at 12:58 PM, RGould8 at aol.com wrote:

> I'm attempting to use the Shell command in Mac OS X to ping some 
> servers and
> check their availability.   My client wants to play a small looping 
> Quicktime
> animation while this is going on to mask the latency.   Unfortunatly, 
> shell
> and "ping" working together freezes Revolution for a few seconds as 
> it's doing
> it, which in turn, causes the animation to freeze.   Is there any way 
> to do
> these operations at the same time without the temporary freezes?

Maybe an animated gif does not have this problem.

Maybe you can "ping" a different way.  Perhaps you can make a test open 
on the service you need.

Dar Scott