> > Is it at all possible to beep the PC Speaker via bash? or perl... or > whatever? > > Use `echo ^G' in sh, where you get the ^G by typing Control+V > Control+G (at the prompt) or Control+Q Control+G (in emacs) or god > knows what (in vi).
Not only god knows. I know it too :) In vi it is just Control+V Control+G, like in the shell. Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .