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 "unsubscribe" to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .