Re: [PLUG] speaker beep question

[epike@isinet.com]

I'm really looking to make interesting sounds from the
speaker thru crontab-activated shell scripts (not X)...
actually the bell works fine but it would be nice to
control the pitches too (to indicate failure, success,
etc).

JondZ

> 
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:45:11AM -0500, epike@isinet.com wrote:
> > I was wondering if there were any other tones I could
> > produce from simple shell scripts (aside from char(7)).
> 
> >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.
> 
> Hope this helps.


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