Re: Beeping the Speaker

[mickyb@es.co.nz (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 something.
> 

Thanks for all the reply's, I have found a solution....
`echo CTRL-V CTRL-G' works, as does `echo -e "\a"' but when run in ip-up,
they must be redirected to a tty... i.e `echo -e "\a" > /dev/tty11' 
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.... :)
I guess it's okay like that if you use queue_only (smail), you kind of
need to deliver mail that arrives via fetchmail. :)

Thank you again for any help recieved...


                       Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)

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