On 24 Feb 1998, Roderick Schertler wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 11:08:17 +1300 (NZDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael
> Beattie) said:
> >
> > My only problem is that echoing the \a twice runs them together to
> > sound like one... I would like a double beep, so i used `runq;runq'
> > to get a suitable pause in between beeps... If anyone has a better
> > idea.... :)
>
> perl >/dev/tty1 -we '$| = 1;
> print "\a";
> select undef, undef, undef, 0.25;
> print "\a"'
>
> The 0.25 indicates a pause of 0.25 seconds.
>
Excellent... works perfectly :) Thanks.
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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