Re: Beeping the Speaker
On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 11:08:17 +1300 (NZDT), mickyb@es.co.nz (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.
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Roderick Schertler
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