Re: [PLUG] speaker beep question

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:32:18PM -0500, Bill Jonas wrote:
> From xset(1):
>        b       The b option controls bell volume, pitch and dura­
>                tion.
>        ...
> 
> Don't know if that's what you're looking for or not.  If you don't want
> to call xset repeatedly from your Perl script, you could look at the
> source for xset to find out what it's doing.

Hopefully, despite the x in its name, it's doing things in a POSIX-y
way rather than through X calls.

(Unless X/Open actually feels that they shouldn't be tied to *any*
OS, in which case they will have wrapped these functions and you'll
have to do some tracing to find the right place.)

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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