[EMAIL PROTECTED] (dkphoto) wrote: >I've lost track of how many Unix/Linux/???ix books I've bought now and >none of them seems to be very thorough. It seems every author assumes you >are using his/her particular flavor of Unix and don't need to know >anything at all about any of the others.
Yep, it's a fragmented world. The core of Unix - the syscall interface, the C library, the shell - are similar everywhere, though, even if they aren't quite identical. For help with the nitty-gritty of particular distributions, though, it's usually best to go to the distribution itself. >The one I am reading now says that the ^G command makes the system >'beep.' It doesn't. How do I produce the system sound/beep/warning, >whatever you'd like to call it? I'm assuming you *are* typing Ctrl-G, not "^G"? If that doesn't work, try putting 'set bell-style audible' in your ~/.inputrc. Try: echo -e '\a' ... as well (read 'help echo'). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
