Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-25 Thread Michael Beattie
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 suita

Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-25 Thread Roderick Schertler
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 >

Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-24 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 02:15:46AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > In bash or sh or ksh - > > > > > > > > echo ^g^g > > > > > > Doesn't work for me. > > > > come on, its not rocket science,

Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-24 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 02:15:46AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > In bash or sh or ksh - > > > > > > > > echo ^g^g > > > > > > Doesn't work for me. > > > > come on, its not rocket science, ech

Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-24 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 02:15:46AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In bash or sh or ksh - > > > > > > echo ^g^g > > > > Doesn't work for me. > > come on, its not rocket science, echo -e "\a" will do the trick. Sure, that does the same as `echo ^

Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-24 Thread Norbert Veber
On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 02:15:46AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In bash or sh or ksh - > > > > echo ^g^g > > Doesn't work for me. come on, its not rocket science, echo -e "\a" will do the trick. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-23 Thread shaul
> In bash or sh or ksh - > > echo ^g^g Doesn't work for me. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-22 Thread Michael Beattie
On 22 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) writes: > > > Is it at all possible to beep the PC Speaker via bash? or perl... or > > whatever? > > > > What I want to do is set up my ip-up script, so that fetchmail is run from > > it, and there is some sort of notifica

Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-22 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) writes: > Is it at all possible to beep the PC Speaker via bash? or perl... or > whatever? > > What I want to do is set up my ip-up script, so that fetchmail is run from > it, and there is some sort of notification when it is complete.. i.e. a > double beep or

Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-21 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > Is it at all possible to beep the PC Speaker via bash? or perl... or > whatever? > > What I want to do is set up my ip-up script, so that fetchmail is run from > it, and there is some sort of notification when it is complete.. i.e. a > double beep or

Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-20 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Michael Beattie wrote, I replied: In bash or sh or ksh - echo ^g^g in perl, print "\007\007"; HTH > > Is it at all possible to beep the PC Speaker via bash? or perl... or > whatever? > > What I want to do is set up my ip-up script, so that fetchmail is run from > it, and there is some s

Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-20 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> >Is it at all possible to beep the PC Speaker via bash? or perl... or >whatever? > > Use `echo ^G' in sh, where you get the ^G by typing Control+V > Control+G (at the prompt) or Control+Q Control+G (in emacs) or god > knows what (in vi). Not only god knows. I know it too :) In vi it

Re: Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
Is it at all possible to beep the PC Speaker via bash? or perl... or whatever? Use `echo ^G' in sh, where you get the ^G by typing Control+V Control+G (at the prompt) or Control+Q Control+G (in emacs) or god knows what (in vi). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "un

Beeping the Speaker

1998-02-20 Thread Michael Beattie
Is it at all possible to beep the PC Speaker via bash? or perl... or whatever? What I want to do is set up my ip-up script, so that fetchmail is run from it, and there is some sort of notification when it is complete.. i.e. a double beep or something. Thanks, Michael Beatt