hearing the audio from a remote system

[Kirk Wood]

It is quite simple. What you want to do can't be done. When you telnet you
are working on the remote machine. Fully and completely. All commands are
carried out the same as if you were on that machine's console (unless
prohibited or some such thing).

What you really want is some sort of proxy program to accept the streaming
data and then forward it to you. As far as changing the bit rate it is
most likely a forget it situation. Not on current computers. 

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Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
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It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.