On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 11:08:17 +1300 (NZDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (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. -- Roderick Schertler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .