sean finney on Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:40:29 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] System Bell - Beep! 

hi zeek,

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 07:46:56PM -0400, zeek wrote:
>   To select, for example, a 50Hz pitch for one-second duration, you can
>   "echo -e "\\33[10;50]\\33[11;1000]"" with bash (where "-e" means
>   `understand Escape sequences'. If you use tcsh the same command spells
>   "echo "\\033[10;50]\\033[11;1000]"".

or, if you'd like something a little more human readable (and portable):

xset b 100 50 1000

(where the arguments are volume, pitch, duration, respectively. read
the fine manpage for more info)


	sean

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